“Love” Poems For Kathy Number Thirty

I KNOW SHE’LL BREAK MY HEART HE SAID

“I know she’ll break my heart,” he said.

“I know it certain as any sun

“Chivvies a glitter from a pipe of lead

“Where the poisoned waters run.

“She’ll take me into her thighs and turn

“Me out on a dawn as dark.

“Her face by the dark door, sorrow-stern,

“Will be creased with her smartest lark.

“Loose leaves and the ravelled flowers share

“Much aspect upon her face,

“But darker than any flutter of hair

“Is the part-past, and the chaste

“Abuse and mirror and sickening sweet,

“And battery forecast. And mean

“Her broken look! and her last retreat

“In the terrible City of Seen!”

(from “”Love” Poems For Kathy / Green. Laced. Leaves”)

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