I have lived in your face.
Have I been you?
Your mother?
giving you birth -
this pain whenever I say
goodbye to thee -
up to now I always
wanted it but not this

(C) Jean Valentine
04/04/2017


Best Poems of Jean Valentine

• Sanctuary
• Friend
• Red Cloth
• Friend 2
• To Plath, To Sexton
• Ghost Elephants
• La Chalupa, The Boat
• Elegy For Jane Kenyon (2)
• Dream Barker
• Father Lynch Returns From The Dead
• Late
• The One You Wanted To Be Is The One You Are
• Hospital: Strange Lights
• The Branches
• To The Black Madonna Of Chartres
• Eleventh Brother
• I Have Lived In Your Face