Long after you have swung back
away from me
I think you are still with me:
you come in close to the shore
on the tide
and nudge me awake the way
a boat adrift nudges the pier:
am I a pier
half-in half-out of the water?
and in the pleasure of that communion
I lose track,
the moon I watch goes down, the
tide swings you away before
I know I'm
alone again long since,
mud sucking at gray and black
timbers of me,
a light growth of green dreams drying.
Losing Track
Denise Levertov
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Poem topics: alone, green, light, moon, water, pleasure, shore, black, watch, away, long, I love you, I miss you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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