The Size
of It
Look, he said, leaning across
discoloured silence, the lack
of light burying his words.
Don’t you see?
Her eyes tried the volume of it:
bass notes she couldn’t grasp,
the straining treble fluttering
up to a veil of cloud.
The creature might be love.
Or something entirely different.
D A Prince
If you have any comments on this poem, D. A. Prince would be
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