An Early Valentine's Month Poem

Lovers of Valdaro




for the mystery
of our being we
collared the earth
as home,  a


shadowed sepulchre
of dust-cloaked 
embrace; therein


dwells the fallow
of my heart, 
hollow like thunder
in a valley, chest


upon chest 
pulsing echoes of 
time's sweet silence, 


the truce
of pain. 




Poem © 2011 by R. Burnett Baker 
Photo of remains of Neolithic "lovers"  discovered near Mantova, Italy in 2007. 
Photo taken by Pasquale Sorrentino.