1/27/12

I Love You
By Linda M. Crate


I love you fully like
the scent of apples
consuming the air
of fall in it’s fragrant
embrace of cider kisses.

I love you deeper
than the many depths
of the unknown deeps
of the jade lazuline
ocean eroding rocks.

I love you higher
than the mountains
of the highest peaks
covered in their ivory
snow frigid like winter.

If you remember nothing
else: remember I love you.


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Linda Crate is a Pennsylvanian native born in Pittsburgh yet raised in the rural town of Conneautville. Her poetry has recently been featured in Magic Cat Press, Black-Listed Magazine, Bigger Stones, and Vintage Poetry. One of her short stories has been featured in Carnage Conservatory and she has an upcoming short story for publication in Dark Gothic Reconstructed Magazine in April 2012.