It is said
That love surprises
You that it
Happens like bumping
Into someone at
The grocer or
Like a snowball
Catching you square
In the jaw
It approaches like
A frightened child
By nightmares crawls
To you like
A naughty puppy
It blooms like
Late April snowdrops
And ends like
Sunsets in Santa Fe
But we’ve tickled
Each other like
Wound up Jack-in-the-boxes
Popping up after
A few turns
Love ambushed us
Just like that
Just like those
HARLAN DIDRICKSON 