The Song by Martin Willitts Jr.

I love you as much as air.

What have I done to deserve you?

I’m almost exhausted

by the absoluteness of love.

Even in the quiet garden

planting gardenias, I hear you,

singing a summer rain.

What have I done to deserve you?

My joy is almost crippling

with an ache for more.

I notice moisture in the rain.

Drops hang in air,

tiny bells trying to ring.

I am constantly lighthearted,

dizzy with hypnotic love.

My face is a song of rain;

a song arriving from you

moves the metronome

of my heart, opening

into a white gardenia.

Martin Willitts Jr has 24 chapbooks including the winner of the Turtle Island Quarterly Editor’s Choice Award, “The Wire Fence Holding Back the World” (Flowstone Press, 2017), plus 11 full-length collections including “The Uncertain Lover” (Dos Madres Press, 2018)  and “Home Coming Celebration” (FutureCycle Press, 2019).