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# Valentine's Day
- URL: https://openriver.net/writing/valentines-day/
- Published: 2022-02-14T17:51:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-25T16:53:41.000Z
- Author: chris
- Tags: Writing, Poetry

Sinking to the top of the ball as it turns  
To spread precisely in the gloaming  
Upon heavy weight parchment,  
Where river rapids flow out of hand-stitched binding,  
And play upon passing remembrances,  
The ink fills the moment as it dries,  
Against the backdrop of the concerns of children sat under a Kentucky coffee tree.

Humid is the evening air still within the garden,  
Where warble and calls the whip-poor-will,  
Ancient songs exposed by the loss of understory.

Solemn pelts of swollen pearls  
By westerly wind the rain arrives;  
And the walks and alleys echo it;  
With its thrumming and pulsing;  
With its sounding and cool, hushed whispers.

And I wished for rivers past and you.  
I wanted to see you gardening in the rain,  
Wild and soaked, dripping muddy water.

Later Antares beat for Scorpius,  
In sky framed by the bedroom window,  
And your slumbered breathing, my darling girl, was laden with calm beauty.

A clear night sky, the airplane purling, and you in my arms securely.