…for two to share

 

 

Reverie

 

Fireside watching after noon

   on such a cloudy day,

it may be not the best of times

   to stay alone here silently,

to stay inside this house

   with crowded happy thoughts

      on such a cloudy day.

 

The chill rampage encloses

   house and home and hearth and me,

and I alone contain

   the quiet fire and you.

 

Your happy smiles I know so well

   surpass the warming feat

      of embering wood,

the tranquil moment stays a moment more,

and one remains for two to share.

 

February 18, 1968

Bethlehem, PA

 

for Barb, my dearest one

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