for Willem
My love,
you are water upon water
upon water until it turns
azure, mountainous. The horizon fills like sand
between glass marbles. So much
has passed between us— last night you told me
to press your hand
harder and harder as I pained. The sunset was at its last
embers. The dark was stealing
the blue light from our room. I was falling into you. ~ ~ Compress water and it turns to ice— compress beauty
and it loses breath. Gaze at it too long, and even the wide
mirror of the ocean will shatter. ~ ~ My Willem,
between us, God has descended in all His atoms.
We have not yet learned to hold Him.
Copyright © 2021 by Adeeba Shahid Talukder. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on July 20, 2021, by the Academy of American Poets. | 
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