FOUR POEMS BY JOHN HOLLANDER
LETl'ER
Love
begins with
light Long
glances at
ladies who
even under
this stony
blue-white
emanatiorls
unwarm and
unalarming
shade form
the lovely
shapes are
the lances
that break
in through
the light–
filled and
resounding
valleys we
lie across
when touch
lengthened
by longing
leads us 0
my
love to
a darkness
we welcome
Left alone
we can lie
clasping a
gap on two
sides like
the letter
that means
-odd
half a square hundred dark places we lay in fifty
ala
remembered times of light unending your beginning 0
Love
