Amorisco

From “Heartsong”:

And I say come like a stranger, like a feather falling on an old woman’s shoulder, like a hawk that comes to feed from her hands, come like a mystery,
like sunlight rain, a blessing, a bus falling off a bridge,
come like a deserting soldier, a murderer chased by law,
like a girl prostitute escaping her pimp, come like a lost horse,
like a dog dying of thirst, come love, come ragged and melancholy like the last day on earth, come like a sigh from…