A poet once wrote that the true and only topics of poetry are love, death, and the changing of the seasons --- which also happens to be the title of a book of lesbian love poems by this Sunday night’s poet, Marilyn Hacker. Those three things will be the topics of the last three poems in this series, starting with love. This is Hacker’s poem “Villanelle,” a title that describes the form of the poem itself:
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