Poem for My Love
By June Jordan
How do we come to be here next to each other
in the night
Where are the stars that show us to our love
inevitable
Outside the leaves flame usual in darkness
and the rain
falls cool and blessed on the holy flesh
the black men waiting on the corner for
a womanly mirage
I am amazed by peace
It is this possibility of you
asleep
and breathing in the quiet air
June Jordan, "Poem for My Love" from Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan. Copyright © 2005 by June Jordan. Reprinted by permission of The June M. Jordan Literary Trust.
Source:
Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan
(2005)
