From Space to Time
on a day when
we were dark
and not so full of
light
we met
what did we find?
nothing.
everything, when we closed
our eyes
which anyway
had never been open.
once, we thought we
loved each other
who can reverse
time?
we tried.
we stepped out
of space
into some new
step of distance
and fell—
and not in love.
Carolyn M. Rodgers, “From Space to Time” from The Heart As Ever Green (Garden City: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1978). Copyright © 1978 by Carolyn M. Rodgers.
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Poet Carolyn M. Rodgers 1941–2010
POET’S REGION U.S., Midwestern
Subjects Living, Disappointment & Failure, Relationships
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SUBJECT Living, Disappointment & Failure, Relationships
POET’S REGION U.S., Midwestern
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