I.
I would have loved you
I would have loved you
for the rest of my time.
I would have never left.
I would have loved you
for the rest of the time
I have left.
Originally deposited as 06.NH.SHARKS.01 (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20348996, May 22 2026).
II. The reward of love
This thing destroyed me
beyond all repair; there are no
words for it; there is
nothing
left to become; there is only
a wound-down regime of fewer
and fewer returns. This
is the reward for loving
fully, unaccountably, beyond
all repair: this is the reward
of love
Originally deposited as 06.NH.SHARKS.02 (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20349343, May 22 2026).
III. I have loved you
if your heart should ever — slowly, astonished — turn
from sheltering slumber, leaves unbundling
from turned-away rain, and find the world made new:
then know
that I have loved you.