“no matter where i go, no matter what i do / i’ll never be 23 with anyone but you”

For Poetry Monday:

Separation, W.S. Merwin

Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.


First published in the Jan. 1962 issue of Poetry.

---L.

Subject quote from 23, Sam Hunt, which I now have stuck in my head dangit.