Themes on Love
Grading themes on love at M.I.T.,
one-man Symposium at 3
a.m., across the court I saw a light;
another office-holder working late.
While Plato on a silver pillow rode
above the waves of pre-sophistic prose,
I jotted teacher’s notions that were not
as brave as our two lamps against the
glut
of dawn. But when I clicked mine off
his too at once was gone; had been
my echo in a distant sheen
of glass; had been my own, and I
was lonely then, and wrote
these English words.
Barry Spacks