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Love in a Poem
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22 l O V E I N a P O E M it’s risky to put love in a poem like sending her out of the house under thundering skies walking with no umbrella embarrassing as if she didn’t know better than to show her nipples like this ecstatic in her clinging t-shirt wet shorts announcing such muscular thighs rain running into love’s shoes when the sun comes out love’s still far from home parading these public roads with her stringy hair love’s audacity in a poem startles motorists who swipe their wipers then glance into rearview mirrors to watch her leaving wet prints on a steaming pavement ...