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Love Song
My table is long,
my window open.
Are you a ghost?
Come anyway.
I have saved you
a yellow pear
and a small knife.
You will say,
what is a pear
to a ghost?
What is a knife?
I will say, let’s sit together
in the morning.
You shall peel the pear.
I shall hold my hands
beneath your white,
under the knife,
and catch for us
the long sun spirals.
—L.L. Barkat, from Love, Etc.: Poems of Love, Laughter, Longing & Loss
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