Intresting, how we fall in love:
in my case absolutely. Absolutely and alas, often
So it was in my youth.
And always with rather boyish men
Unformed, sullen, or shyly kicking the dead leaves:
in the manner of Balanchine.
Nor did I see them as virsions of the same thing.
I, with my inflexable platonism,
my fierce seeing of only one thing at a time:
I ruled out the indefinate article.
and yet, the mistakes of my youth made me hopeless,
because they repeated themselfs.
as is commonly true.

But in you, i felt something beyond the architype-
A true expansiveness, a boyance and love of the earth, utter alien to my nature.
To my credit, I blessed my good fortune in you. Blessed it absolutely in the manner of those years.
and you, in your infinate wisdom and cruelty
gradually tought me the meaninglessness of that term.