‘I Will Love You in the Morning’
— Hannah Cohen
when I am
a bird on the horizon and disappear into you
It can be a challenge to reinvent and repeat one image, to keep a momentum going through the tight space of a poem. Lawrence’s poem ‘I Will Love You in the Morning’ gives us birds, birds, birds and I want even more, even after “one bird divides into three”. I appreciate the mixture of flight, miniscule things, and the physical—there’s this sort of boundless echo that comes with the sounds of “blurred”, “quieter”, and “distance”. With the lack of punctuation, we can start and stop at any point in the poem, truly how “[our] beginning becomes [our] end”.