Circle of Encounters

Early Muse

One spring some forty years ago
I fell in love with her for a month.
I called her "Lady of the Lilacs."
because she dressed in grays and lavenders
and gave me metaphors and rhymes.
She called herself "Child of Rain."
and planned to die when she reached thirty.
I meant to live to be very old,
and promised to mourn her early dying.
We quarreled over some small thing.
I left her weeping in an April rain.
A class reunion letter tells me
she's married twice, has three children.
No mention of intention to die soon.

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