solitude.
“ He dug so deeply
into her s e n t i m e n t s that
in search of interest
he found l o v e
Because by trying to make her love him
he ended up
falling in love with her
And they lamented that
it had cost them so much of their lives
to find the p a r a d i s e of shared solitude
Madly in love
after so many years
of sterile complicity
they enjoyed
the m i r a c l e of living each other
as much at the table as in bed
And they grew to be so h a p p y that
even when they were two worn-out people
they kept on b l o o m i n g
like little children
and playing together like dogs.”
