Lennart Lundh

Drawing Maps in the Night

Afterward, at the old kitchen table
with its wood scratched by her sons
playing on endless rainy evenings,
they looked at each other in hushed tones
across unfrosted chocolate cake
placed square on plain white plates,
tried to figure out if they were in love,
tried to decide if it made a difference
as long as they were caring and kind,
agreed that they would sleep on it.




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Lennart Lundh is a poet, short-fictionist, historian, and photographer. His work, including more than a dozen collections and chapbooks, has appeared internationally since 1965.