Step 10: Obsess Over Carol Ann Duffy

(this is her. no one knows if she is a man or a woman or an elf.)

Carol Ann Duffy is a poetic genius, and I want to do her. Bad. Here is a poem that I recently fell in love with by her. Read it. Love it.

The Lovers

Pity the lovers,
who climb to the high room,
where the bed,
and the gentle lamps wait,
and disembark from their lives.
The deep waves of the night
lap at the window.

Time slips away
like land from a ship.
The moon, their own death,
follows them, cold,
cold in their blankets.
Pity the lovers, homeless,
with no country to sail to.


Carol Ann Duffy