Joseph Anthony’s Reviews > The October Palace > Status Update

I thought I would love you forever -
and, a little, I may,
in the way I still move towards a crate,
knees bent,
or reach for a man: as one might stretch for
the three or four fruit that lie in the sun
at the top of a tree;
too ripe for any moment but this,
they open their skin at first touch,
yielding sweetness,
sweetness and heat,
and in me,
each time since,
the answering yes.