Love Poem by Susan Wheeler

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend December 6, 2016   Love Poem   Susan Wheeler

My mother wouldn't stand up to wave. My father made certain the door locked behind me.   But when I went for your door you came too. Your mouth made a flute of my arm,   its music a glass on the past. My love, my love, went its song. Now there is no need to leave.            Copyright © 2016 Susan Wheeler. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   "I wanted to write a simple and direct poem to the person I love and live with." —Susan Wheeler   Susan Wheeler is the author of Meme (University of Iowa Press, 2012). She teaches at Princeton University and lives in East Millstone, New Jersey.   Photo credit: Mel Edelman Poetry by Wheeler   Meme (University of Iowa Press, 2012)  "No, Love Is Not Dead" by Robert Desnos "A Love Song" by William Carlos Williams "Sometimes with One I Love" by Walt Whitman Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038