Now that you have touched me,
I am touched forever.
I tried, years ago,
to peel my skin away,
but found that you will not be erased.

No, I am always touched,
and always by you,
always naked,
and you are all my fault;

I have longed so many times
to undo you, to make you nothing,
or else, perhaps,
to make myself still less.

b. lipton
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Before you slip away, the moment happens ( Read more... )

I was undone at fourteen ( Read more... )

The light is so yellow ( Read more... )

Years ago, it was you I loved ( Read more... )

At the round earth's imagined corners, creep ( Read more... )

It lay in the parking lot ( Read more... )

I remember so well, how you were ( Read more... )

Faced with love, we did not know
how to act.

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b. lipton

Well, how much I wish you,
infinitely, even.
once there has been a moment of recollection
things refuse to be forgotten.

copyright 2006
b. lipton