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"Someone may try to capture your heart
but will never quite understand you,
for you've placed your life in the lanterns' glow.
where no one will ever reach you."

there is this melancholy that suddenly rose within me when I started reading the poems... I fear this collection will wreck me...

“this friendship, ardent and unspoken, can only vibrate like a poem carrying between its lines a want the poet has never called by name.”

“The frost let go.
The mittens fell from the radiator.
A man's back will tell you more than he has said in eighteen years.
Another man and another woman glance off

the memory.
The day was meaningless like what you call
love.”