
If I write tonight
say
your name
will you fill my
empty cup with butterflies, or
streets to stroll,or
poems or glances or cookies
or cigars or candies─
of short paperbacks and notes
or
silence?
Your absence
only
rests in my room.
Denise Levertov (October 24, 1923–December 20, 1997) was a British-born American poet.