Love Poem: Starting Points
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Written by: Erin Beckett

Starting Points

my hands loiter slowly, as children take 
sensation in unhurried wonderment,

heralding the realization that almost 
anything can be absorbed by robust 
yet casual chance meetings.  

whatever words I’d choose for this 
mechanism would only adulterate 
as words do. I tug your sleeve, 

you caress the river beneath 
the designated portion, one for one.
is time a flat circle squeezed 

into perceptual illusion? 
does love begin at the fingertip?