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Love Poem, Planned

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Love Poem, Planned

for Diane

Sherman Alexie
Aug 10, 2022
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All around us is clutter,
but we’re in bed, separated
from the disarray
of the world. Beneath

these sheets, you and I
are simple, bare,
and deliberate.
We move clock-

wise and counter
in tender tandem.
My love, after 
28 years of marriage, 

it’s no surprise 
that our fingers
and skin
are organized.

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Mary
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Aug 16, 2022Liked by Sherman Alexie

Sherman, your poem made me cry, it is so true and so soft, in a way. It is so sweet to read your vulnerability. Pain and anger are gone, and something too deep for me to pretend to "describe it"

is there. I am so glad you have come home in your life to a marriage that you deserve. You don't need to wonder about love anymore, and for that I am overjoyed.

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Arjan Tupan
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Aug 15, 2022

Beautiful. The love radiates from it. Deep love. I like that. Congratulations. On this poem and the love.

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