Forever by James Longenbach

Author:James Longenbach
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2021-06-02T00:00:00+00:00

Water Street.

6.

Ash-blond, tall, a sweater

Knotted by its sleeves around his neck,

A boy is leaning on a bicycle. Deftly when she reaches him

A girl slips to the grass, one hand straightening her skirt,

The other tugging at the boy,

Who remains standing, to sit beside her.

Their heads are close

Enough to be touching;

Their lips are still—

A book is the future.

You dream

Of reading it, and once you’ve finished, it’s a miracle, you know the past.

The sky fills with stars. The sun

Climbs every morning

Over Watch Hill, dropping behind the harbor at dusk.

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