Two Love Poems, One Message

Two short poems — read together in a single episode. The first, An Exercise in Love by Diane di Prima, builds a world of quiet, sensory intimacy: moonstones and seaweeds, silk and herons the colour of dawn, love as a daily practice of exchange so deep that by the final line she has woken in the smell of his hair and cannot remember her own name.

The second, simply called Love Poem by Vicki Feaver, catches the same love in a single, unguarded moment. Together they make one of the most tender portraits of love you will find anywhere in the American tradition — two poems, one message.

We share poems in good faith and with full credit. A Letter to the Poets →