Butler Pennsylvania 21


Minnesinger


It was as if the whole world
lived inside that little room
of yours
under the eaves
on Chestnut Street
and to be near you
I, with boyish desire
envied the maple tree
that had grown there
beside your window.

Ah, those blurred panes
I see now on looking up
at emptiness and loss,
craving somehow yet
the bliss that went with hoping
your curtain might open
then seeing you aware
of my being there.





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