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First Love
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Carol Ann Duffy
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Waking, with a dream of first love forming real words, as close to my lips as lipstick, I speak your name, after a silence of years, into the pillow, and the power of your name brings me here to the window, naked, to say it again to a garden shaking with light. This was a child's love, and yet I clench my eyes till the pictures return, unfocused at first, then almost clear, an old film played at a slow speed. All day I will glimpse it in windows of changing sky, in mirrors, my lover's eyes, wherever you are. And later a star, long dead, here, seems precisely the size of a tear. Tonight, a love-letter out of a dream stammers itself in my heart. Such faithfulness. You smile in my head on the last evening. Unseen flowers suddenly pierce and sweeten the air.
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