Valentine by Robert Creeley

Had you a dress
would cover you all
in beautiful echoes
of all the flowers I know,

could you come back again,
bones and all,
just to talk
in whatever sound,

like letters spelling words,
this one says, Mother,
I love you–
that one, my son.

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