A Token

 

My lady
fair with
soft
arms, what

can I say to   
you—words, words   
as if all
worlds were there.
 

Copyright Credit: Robert Creeley, “A Token” from The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975. Copyright © 1992 by the Regents of the University of California. Reprinted with the permission of the University of California Press, www.ucpress.edu. Permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
 
Source: The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley 1945-1975
 
(University of California Press
 
, 2006)