➳ ➳ my love for you is more athletic than a verb.

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My love for you is more

athletic than a verb,

Agile as a star

The tents of sun absorb.

Treading circus tight ropes

Of each syllable,

The brazen jackanapes

Would fracture if he fell.

Acrobat of space

The daring adjective

Plunges for a phrase

Describing arcs of love.

Nimble as a noun,

He catapults in air;

A planetary swoon

Could climax his career.

But adroit conjunction

Eloquently shall

Link to his lyric action

A periodic goal.

-Sylvia Plath, Verbal Calisthenics

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