Kenneth Koch - To You

Kenneth Koch - To You

I love you as a sheriff searches for a walnut br That will solve a murder case unsolved for years br Because the murderer left it in the snow beside a window br Through which he saw her head, connecting with br Her shoulders by a neck, and laid a red br Roof in her heart. For this we live a thousand years; br For this we love, and we live because we love, we are not br Inside a bottle, thank goodness! I love you as a br Kid searches for a goat; I am crazier than shirttails br In the wind, when you’re near, a wind that blows from br The big blue sea, so shiny so deep and so unlike us; br I think I am bicycling across an Africa of green and white fields br Always, to be near you, even in my heart br When I’m awake, which swims, and also I believe that you br Are trustworthy as the sidewalk which leads me to br The place where I again think of you, a new br Harmony of thoughts! I love you as the sunlight leads the prow br Of a ship which sails br From Hartford to Miami, and I love you br Best at dawn, when even before I am awake the sun br Receives me in the questions which you always pose. br br br “To You” from The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch, published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Copyright © 2006 by Kenneth Koch.


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