I opened the book:

These pages right at the end intrigue me:
There are about 5 of them
left blank

So before reading
I take note:
it is the 10th of January
In the afternoon
I see a folded page
corner somewhere
between the middle
and the end

Verse says: "After all I was married twice"
(but the cuts do not match)

Anne is so nice to me
I can't even begin to compare here with my most recent wife.

I wonder: what was she like with both her husbands?

- and - 

Will I ever get a second chance?

When we separated I'd left an Anne

Carson book at her house.

It was very hard meeting her afterwards

and getting it back.

Perhaps libraries shouldn't ever

be repossessed.

If it was the other way

around I would have surely

kept the book and start reading it

the minute she left

up until

I found something there

(an answer)

But things are not like that.

She never read the books

I gave her all the way

                        through anyway

And I wouldn't have found and answer

                                  But perhaps

I would hold on to something of hers

until it became her

or

until it was no longer

                        lover

her

And it became mine

Something  of a part of me

who no longer

longed for her.

All of this I read in one verse

And wrote it in the back of the book.

[1-10-2012]