The Gift By J. D. Whitney

were you to come
arms out
a flower
in your
open hands

and I there
wanting
not able to
reach to
hold it

you would
turn
with it
going

but things do not
end so
simply as that

no
things change,
people

the passage
of a pos-
ibility
comes and is
good
for simply having
been that
much

a flower
no
small thing

thank
you

*
to think that
we could think
that it could
all end
there
oh
woman we were
wrong
wrong (no
I was
wrong
you
had not thought it at
all)
and you were right