‘Volta’ ~ Candace Hisey

Do you know–

I can mark the moment

I loved you

down to the second

I can replay it 

as often as I like,

and I do

These things are true:

I want to study your face

as I touch you.

I want to feed you warm bread.

Auden wrote,

If equal affection cannot be, 

Let the more loving one be me.

What does a poet know?

Safer to be loved–

a safety that has carried me 

safely to now.

But you owe me 

nothing and I can 

give you nothing,

so what is there to fear? 

If you feel the same, tell me.

If you don’t—

                                 unsend.

~~

Candace Hisey grew up on a small farm in rural Northeast Ohio. When she is not teaching, she enjoys gardening, hiking, reading non-fiction, and scribbling in notebooks beside her border collie mix Hal. She always seems to be writing about dirt.