I love you as a sheriff searches for a walnut /
That will solve a murder case unsolved for years /
Because the murderer left it in the snow beside a window /
Through which he saw her head, connecting with /
Her shoulders by a neck, and laid a red /
Roof in her heart. For this we live a thousand years; /
For this we love, and we live because we love, we are not /
Inside a bottle, thank goodness! I love you as a /
Kid searches for a goat; I am crazier than shirt-tails /
In the wind, when you’re near, a wind that blows from /
The big blue sea, so shiny so deep and so unlike us; /
I think I am bicycling across an Africa of green and white fields /
Always, to be near you, even in my heart /
When I’m awake, which swims, and also I believe that you /
Are trustworthy as the sidewalk which leads me to /
The place where I again think of you, a new /
Harmony of thoughts! I love you as the sunlight leads the prow /
Of a ship which sails /
From Hartford to Miami, and I love you /
Best at dawn, when even before I am awake the sun /
Receives me in the questions which you always pose. /
[--Kenneth Koch]
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