Robert Creeley - Other
Having begun in thought there <br />in that factual embodied wonder <br />what was lost in the emptied lovers <br />patience and mind I first felt there <br />wondered again and again what for <br />myself so meager and finally singular <br />despite all issued therefrom whether <br />sister or mother or brother and father <br />come to love's emptied place too late <br />to feel it again see again first there <br />all the peculiar wet tenderness the care <br />of her for whom to be other was first fate.<br /><br />Robert Creeley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/other/