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Kim Addonizio, from Lucifer at the Starlite: Poems; “The first line is the deepest”

Thank you for letting me experience your love. Thank you for letting me share my love with you all those years ago. If there had to be anyone in this lifetime to hold that title of being my first love, I’m glad my soul chose you. The greatest gift you’ve ever given me, long ago, was showing me what love is supposed to feel like.

There will come a day where I won’t be able to recall your face. As the years pass by, my memory got foggy. Your voice has gone, followed by your laugh and then…your touch. You lingered until you eventually went away. A distant memory that I used to know. What can never fade is knowing that what I felt, what we shared, was real…and that I loved you. Even with age, I’m relieved to know that my body will remember what my mind will forget.

A decade later and yet, I am still protective over you and our story. I always will. You’ll always have a piece of my heart. Thank you for everything. I’ll go now. It’s time for me to let you go.

—A farewell to my first love

Mary Oliver, from “Marengo.” [ID in alt text]

— David Foster Wallace

when david kushner said “oh i love it and i hate it at the same time”, i thought about you

Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus, originally published: 1977