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Love is not Love.(Poem)(Brief article)

Quadrant

| June 01, 2007 | Compton, Jennifer | COPYRIGHT 2007 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright
 
LOVE IS NOT LOVE 
 
   1. 
 
   It was never love. Not love. It was 
   what the Italians call the thunderbolt. 
 
   We stared. We exchanged eyes. It 
   was easy. Not what we might have 
 
   wanted. Not what we had planned. 
   Many things were snatched away 
 
   like thistledown in the high and gusty 
   winds of our home town. Many things 
 
   arrived like the burden of a new language. 
   As if the kaleidoscope had been given a 
 
   vigorous shake and fallen into a new pattern. 
   And then broken. We shuddered, and woke. 
 
   2. 
 
   I saw fear in his eyes, but we stepped forward, 
   we took hands, just like lovers do, the ceremony 
 
   wound up with the pragmatic certainty of a dream. 
   The children stirred and knew it was nearly time. 
 
   The words we said shook us to the bone. Who knew 
   that words could be so precise, that we ...
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