Fidelity

Through firm resolve
she identified
the hollow eye of pain

By contrast unforgiving
this January day
is almost radiant

She couldn't say why
and laughs at the landscape
I replaced last summer

We stay together because
I take her medicine
when solitude returns

Spencer Selby
Colorado Review
Volume XXXIII, Number 1
Spring 2006

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