Just once let’s imagine a word for the memory

singled you out from the whole world,

that lives beyond the body, that circles
that lives beyond the body, that circles
and sets all things alight. For I have
and sets all things alight. For I have
singled you out from the whole world,
singled you out from the whole world,
and I would — even as this darkness
and I would — even as this darkness
is falling, even when the night comes
is falling, even when the night comes
where there are no more words, and the day
where there are no more words, and the day
comes when there is no more light. —Leanne O’Sullivan
comes when there is no more light.
—Leanne O’Sullivan

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