Romanticism by April Bernard

Author:April Bernard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2012-06-12T16:00:00+00:00

Romance

I pine. There is an obstacle to our love.

Every time I hear the postman, I think: At last, the letter!

He has overcome the obstacle—

(It is a large obstacle, an actual alp, with a tree line and sheer rock face

streaked with snow even in July)

for love of me! For three years, nine decades, and one century or so,

there has been no letter. I still wait for the letter.

But lately I wonder if my predicament is outside the human,

neither noble nor farcical; if my heart courts pain

because it aims for immortality, something grander

than I can imagine. Most of what I imagine,

what I want, is small: Hands with mine in the sink, washing dishes,

the smell of wool, feet tangling mine in bed. I know

the gods punish the proud, but I do not yet know

why they punish the humble. Although after all

it is not humble to ask, every minute or so, for happiness.

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