The Lovers' Sestina
The Lovers' Sestina
Original Text
Bruce Meyer, Anywhere (Toronto: Exile Editions, 2000): 16-17.
1Am I
2this song
3celebrating you,
4each drawn
5breath praising
6the world?
7The world
8that I
9know, praising
10with song,
11is drawn
12loving you.
13Are you
14the world
15completely drawn,
16all I
17am, song
18for praising?
19This praising
20that you
21call song
22is world
23enough. I
24am drawn,
25slowly drawn
26to praising
27what I
28love: you,
29the world,
30becoming song,
31simple song
32simply drawn,
33a world
34where praising
35canticles you,
36declaring I
37am alive, a song of you
38drawn from praising
39all I know of the world.
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
2012
Form
Special Copyright
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