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The Two Times I Loved You the Most In a Car
It was your idea
to park and watch the elephants
swaying among the trees
like royalty
at that make-believe safari
near Laguna.
I didn’t know anything that big
could be so quiet.
And once, you stopped
on a dark desert road
to show me the stars
climbing over each other
riotously
like insects
like an orchestra
thrashing its way
through time itself
I never saw light that way
again.
Source: Poetry (March 2010).
Biography
Dorothea Grossman’s 2003 CD, Call And Response (pfMentum) features the poet in live performance with improvising trombonist Michael Vlatkovich.
Poems by Dorothea Grossman
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Relationships, Love, Nature, Animals, Romantic Love
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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