LIFE Poem: i am trying to write you a love poem, by Corey Ruzicano

but none of the words are sticking to the page
for most of my life i had loves
i couldn’t make sense with
and so I wrote poems
but now,
you
and the poem you’ve made of my life
seems to defy the size of space that words can offer
somehow at once
intergalactic gargantuan skycraping in scale
technicolor every kind of magic lucy in the sky with diamonds
and
imperceptible minuscule pedestrian plain and simple
that any slight of hand i can pull in a poem
any pretty patina i might employ
any metaphor i’d shoehorn my way into or out of
die clumsy on my tongue
none of my tricks work on you
and for most of my life
if it wasn’t something i could say beautifully
it wasn’t worth saying
but now,
you

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