Love

• Dusk 


  dusk has hidden the bridge in the river
• Hero and hell


  The hero crosses on his way to hell
• Old house


  Not far from here is our old apartment/ we had a kitchen and an Amish table
• Love discovered 


  And we discovered there/ love had the feather and muscle of wings/ and had come to live with us/ a brother of fire and air
• 2 children 


  We had two infant children one of whom/was touched by death in this town/ and spared
• Wife


  I am your wife/ it was years ago
• Child healed


  Our child was healed/ we love each other still/ across our day to day and ordinary distances/ we speak plainly
• Return to you


  And yet I want to return to you/ on the bridge of the Iowa river as you were
• Hero 


  I see you as a hero in text
• Question


  And I long to cry out the epic question= my dear companion
• Live again 


  Will we ever live so intensely again
• Final two lines


  But the words are shadows and you cannot hear me/ you walk away and I cannot follow