Love Song after Lorca
Doe-eyed and deaf to all
but his own fears and pain,
he longs for what
the silence overwhelms.
She who loves him sings
what his longing longs to hold.
She doesn’t know
what he can’t hear,
if it’s his own
pit thick with pitch
or an emptiness
she might begin to fill.
How does she say
she loves him so
he knows more than the quiet
between every pretty sound?
James Edward Tolan
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