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“An Aspect of Love, Alive in the Ice and Fire” by Gwendolyn Brooks

An Aspect of Love, Alive in the Ice and Fire

                                                                                LaBohem Brown

In a package of minutes there is this We.
How beautiful.
Merry foreigners in our morning,
we laugh, we touch each other,
are responsible props and posts.

A physical light is in the room.

Because the world is at the window
we cannot wonder very long.

You rise. Although
genial, you are in yourself again.
I observe
your direct and respectable stride.
You are direct and self-accepting as a lion
in Afrikan velvet. You are level, lean,
remote.

There is a moment in Camaraderie
when interruption is not to be understood.
I cannot bear an interruption.
This is the shining joy;
the time of not-to-end.

On the street we smile.
We go
in different directions
down the imperturbable street.

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Gwendolyn Brooks, 1917-2000

© 1987 Gwendolyn Brooks
“An Aspect of Love, Alive in the Ice and Fire” from Blacks

Photo by Creative Hina By.Quileen on Unsplash

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