The American Poetry Review

TWO POEMS

Love Story

At the summit of our 60 years togetherwe were driving back and forth to the hospital,and he said, at a light, in a Or maybe that was yearsand years earlier. In a book, it might matterwhether events were in their proper order,first things first and last things truest,and all things said by the end that should be said.But love is not a story.

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