LOVE SONG

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The ancients would lift

a clay spout to your lips-
water and honey and wine.

I give you milk, softened
with wine, and swear

you'll never hunger, never
thirst while I'm alive.

What suffering I can't preclude
I'll soothe with singing:

My future, for you

not the greenness of a leaf

but of the leaves on all
the April branches.

Fire, I give you fuel. I sweat
and chop the wood.

I tender forever in you
who begin where I end as if

your body is

my body, your elegance
my elegance.

Sustenance, emptiness
is lack of you, yearning is

the road to where you are.

You are the road, the where,
the song, the hunger. Child,

I give you sleep, I sing
you there.

- Maggie Dietz

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