Every Word

Copyright © 2011 Ernest Bloom.

every word an embrace

every sentence a kiss

every page an hour seeped in another's

interstellar eyes, penetrating, a brave

nosedive into boundlessly ballooning,

infinitely regressing depth, every

conversation a blessed, secret rendezvous

within arm's reach or less of paradise,

occasions of a thousand lovers' passions,

in certain determination, intent concentration,

resolved to rend a humdrum, superficial world

where left and right the sleepers still linger

and malinger, blindly pursuing life's latent voltage

undreamable and undreamt,

and woefully under-tapped



through spinning night to yawning dawn,

day by day, year by year,

you and i in secret met, again,

again and again, while all of those others

so unlucky, never having even exchanged

one carefully selected and constructed

resonant, reverberative, tolling bell-note of

a great and heroic, clarion-voiced love:

a word






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