Things one does when one's lover is away:
- stand in the freezing wind waiting for a bus
- speak with one's therapist
- wander Ninth Avenue seeking small tokens of one's love
- find only two
- wonder about the worth of such tokens
- wonder about one's own worth
- wonder about how one correctly tells another of one's love
- wonder which says more - words or actions
(are not words themselves actions?)
- decide to take a hint from Shikujo
How many ways are there to speak the ineffable?
That's a trick question.
Joan Woodbridge
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/after-shikujo-s-pillow-book/
