By Elizabeth Savage
a charmed life
let him keep it
& riches of love
suffering misses
let him
keep it
if your boy loves
stumbling
into riches of life
suffering misses
let him keep
if riches of suffering
love misses
charms your boy
let him suffer
stumbling love
riches of life
charming your boy
& the stumbling
of love
your boy leads
let him
keep it
your boy leads
Elizabeth Savage is author of Jane & Paige or Sister Goose (2011), Grammar (2012), and Idylliad (2015), all from Furniture Press Books. The current issue of Verse features her dossier-chapbook of twenty-six poems, titled Woman Looking at a Vase of Flowers. Her poetry reviews appear in Jacket2 and in Kestrel: A Journal of Literature & Art, for which she serves as poetry editor.
