Love on My Part
Love on my partIs sweet, absurd;It makes my heartA crazy bird
That now must singA springtime songThough every SpringHas come and gone.
Let it sing clearBoth night and day...Its notes may scareTime's chill away.
From A Long Apprenticeship: The Collected Poems of Fred Cogswell. Reprinted with permission of Kathleen Forsythe, Cogswell's literary executor. Back to Selected Poems