It Would

by Alice Notley

Alice Notley

it would be that
but only if I knew how
again
Could something like
that get lost? no only
a little a little lost

but if only I remember
how I mean she or I
oh a freight train goes by
& they always do & did
do
I mean a real one too
that I’m not on & am it
very seriously

in this serious love world
that one
where something oddly music
will pass through your
night
and it will be me
sweet me.

From: 
Selected Poems, Talisman House, 1993





Last updated September 05, 2017