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“And we who loved the world must learn the language of absence: days foreshortened, empty rooms, the irrevocable distance between the goodbye and the letting go.”
― Joe Bolton, The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990

“The best days of summer are the days of summer gone.”
― Joe Bolton, The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990

“If strength is love, then we weren't strong enough,
But if strength is letting love go, we were.”
― Joe Bolton, The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990

“I can't let them go, those days of summer gone.”
― Joe Bolton, The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990

“There's nothing in this warm, vegetal dusk that is not beautiful or that will last.”
― Joe Bolton, The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990

“And if poetry is a bond between
Two hearts, it is a bond too frail:
That night words failed, I, too, was lost—
To whiskey, memory, a photograph.”
― Joe Bolton, The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990

“Say this life and let it be enough, for once.”
― Joe Bolton, The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990

“We’ve perfected our obsessions and traveled
Too far into ourselves, like the mystic
Made ashes by his own imploding light.”
― Joe Bolton, The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990