Offering And Rebuff

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I could love you
as dry roots love rain.
I could hold you
as branches in the wind
brandish petals.
Forgive me for speaking so soon.

  Let your heart look
  on white sea spray
  and be lonely.

  Love is a fool star.

  You and a ring of stars
  may mention my name
  and then forget me.

  Love is a fool star.

© Carl Sandburg