in gratitude, for being loved in the face of doom

from Dionne Brand, The Blue Clerk (2018)

 

 

VERSO 3.4

In this city, you fall in love at Chester subway, it’s not a
beautiful subway so your love makes it so. But its ugliness
may doom your love, and you know it but you love
anyway.

 

 

(for B)

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