One True Love 34

13

My timid heart

Was always a tester of water

Before it went swimming.

Then –

                                   WOOOOSH!

You swept in

And my heart surfaced

Gasping

And finding itself

Immersed again

And

                  Again.

It could only

Kick and stroke

And keep

Its head

Above water.

 

"13, My timid heart" was first published in Two Wholes Make It Total, 1978.  The persona feels overwhelmed by his new true love.

 

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