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Thursday, January 31, 2013

Poem-A-Day: A Sonnet from the Archives Of Love's Failures, Volumes 1-3.5 Million by Anne Boyer

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A Sonnet from the Archives of Love's
Failures, Volumes 1-3.5 Million
by Anne Boyer

 

If you were once inside my circle of love

and from this circle are now excluded,
and all my love's citizens I love more than you,
if you were once my lover but I've stopped
letting you, what is the view from outside

my love's limit? Does my love's interior emit
upward and cut into night? Do my charms,
investigations, and illnesses issue to the dark
that circles my circle? Do they bother

your sleep? And if you were once my friend
and are now my villainous foe, what stories
do you tell about how stupid those days
when I cared for you? Because I tell stories

of how you must tremble at my love's terrible walls,
how the memory of its interior you must always be

   eroding.

Copyright © 2013 by Anne Boyer. Used with permission of the author.

 

Poetry by Boyer

The Romance of Happy Workers

Poem-A-Day started as a National Poetry Month program in 2006, delivering daily poems from newly-published poetry titles.

 

Due to popular demand, Poem-A-Day became a year-round program in 2010, featuring original, never-before-published poems by contemporary poets on weekdays, and classic poems on weekends.

 

Browse the Poem-A-Day archive for selections since 2010. 

January 31, 2013

 

Anne Boyer is the author of The Romance of Happy Workers (Coffee House Press, 2008). She was born in Topeka, Kansas and  co-edits the poetry journal Abraham Lincoln.

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