Adolescent Passion Play
This is a poem from my book, The
Sad Science of Love.
http://twoculturespress.com/sad_science_of_love.php
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Adolescent Passion Play
“Our notion of symmetry is derived from the human face. Hence, we demand
symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth.”
—Blaise Pascal, Aphorisms
I used to play softball on the diamond
intersection of Paulina and 65th Street
with storm sewers as bases: Paulina
Street was right field, 65th was left,
and your corner yard, our centre field.
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Even then I longed for symmetry.
Even then I longed for you.
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