Sunday, December 26, 2021

Plague Conjunctive

Hokyoung Kim, The New York Times

 

I do not blame you

          yet i do

I should not have

          yet I did


I have seen the world

          without you in it

and it's not what you thought


From the top of the hill

          my shadow stretches

into the thaw-blackened trees


I do not accept your absence

          yet I do

I should never

          yet I will