Yes, I agree with Lori's comment completely. The last stanza really hammers it home though for me too. Kind of speaks of life itself. You reach that point and, wow, like the line goes "you've got to rage against the dying of the light!" Gets harder and harder...nostalgia turns to reflection turns to praying for the thaw. Nicely written.
It must be the season to write about seasons. This evokes tremendous emotion. In my opinion, the line "Love was a joyous tumble in the fragrance of you" is as beautiful as poetry gets.
The songs and art in this book are about our collective emergence after the pandemic and trauma of the last few years - comprised of 5 collections: World as Refuge, Where We Live, In Our Hands, Rhythms of Change and What We See & Sow.
Contraband Marriage, traveling along the hemline of loving after incarceration, is a love story written in lyric and free form, set in reality with a different ever after.
Cryssa