A. S. J. Tessimond
Love, Meeting, and Song
Meetings, betrayals, almost-love, love songs, and Tessimond's crisp emotional surfaces.
One Almost Might
Wouldn't you say,
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Wouldn't you say: one day,
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With a little more time or a little more patience,
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Not Love Perhaps
This is not Love, perhaps,
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Love that lays down its life,
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that many waters cannot quench,
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nor t
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Meeting
Dogs take new friends abruptly and by smell,
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Cats' meetings are neat, tactual, caressive.
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Monkey
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Betrayal
If a man says half himself in the light, adroit
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Way a tune shakes into equilibrium,
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Or approxima
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Unlyric Love Song
It is time to give that-of-myself which I could not at first:
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To offer you now at last my least an
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Black Morning Lovesong
In love's dances, in love's dances
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One retreats and one advances,
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One grows warmer and one colde
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