BELL | CICARELLI | “An Elm We Lost”

In a sweeping, other-wordly piece by Antonio Cicarelli, Marvin Bell’s briefest of love poems is given to the wind.

 

 

AN ELM WE LOST

 

On it we wrote a little essay

about who loved who.

Shade moves in the grass, never still,

and they still do.

 

 

MARVIN BELL

 

 

This poem is copyright Marvin Bell, all rights reserved, and used by permission of the author. The poem appears in A MARVIN BELL READER: SELECTED POETRY AND PROSE (University Press of New England, 1994).

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