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A Valentine's poem

Updated: Feb 16, 2021

Searching my computer for Valentine/Día del Amor y la Amistad poems, I came across this – from so many years ago, I’d forgotten it and the poetry reading that inspired it.


Valentine Reading, Calaveras Hotel


We sit in rows of worn red velvet.

She’s pale but almost blushes, fusses with her hat –

bowler with a rosebud. She’s dressed up

1920's style, chemise and boa for this old Gold-Rush

hall, this poetry reading to commemorate Love.

She came with no partner but a poem.

She’s shy about her hat – chemo; she’s in remission.

I don’t know her, any more than the ghosts

of this historic place. With a half-smile she prefaces

her verse about Love – says this is really new,

something we may not have had the luck of finding,

yet. Whom might she love? and who might love

her? Her self, her life. Her voice

comes sweet and stronger with each line.


~ Taylor Graham


first appeared on Poems Niederngasse

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