The Lovers

I was always afraid
of the next card

the psychic would turn
over for us—
                              Forgive me
for not knowing
how we were

every card in the deck.

Timothy Liu, "The Lovers" from Don’t Go Back to Sleep. Copyright © 2014 by Timothy Liu.  Reprinted by permission of Saturnalia Books.
Source: Don't Go Back to Sleep (Saturnalia Books, 2014)
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