“Day and Night” by Jean Valentine:
Day & night
in the little house
breath rising, falling
unreceived…
What did I love most in that house? What did you? I loved
the most the early summer mornings, lying, touching, in the
farmer’s square bedroom, the window lightening on the left, the
south, the home-made bed,
the beach we had swum for, old, the dog
kissing us—
(“Day & Night” by Jean Valentine from Little Boat © 2007. Reprinted with the permission of the author and Wesleyan University Press. Image by Flickr user leonorjr)
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