Poem-A-Day April 3: I was always afraid

The Lovers

I was always afraid
of the next card

the psychic would turn
over for us —
                            Forgive me
for not knowing
how we were

every card in the deck.


“The Lovers” appears in Timothy Liu’s 2014 collection Don’t Go Back to Sleep.

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