June 19, 2011

 

Remember, too, that love contains, but is not an emotion;

is not romance, that color photograph

of a smiling couple on a short vacation

whose kisses are purchased, pretty souvenirs,

in gabled shops with good views of the ocean.

Love is, in supreme form, concentration.

             

  - Patricia Storace, excerpt fro her poem: "Pamina's Marriage Speech"