Lost Love.

"You closed us off like a parenthesis and left me knowing just enough to miss." This closing line of Marilyn Hacker's poem entitled "[Who would divorce her lover]" helps embody one of the themes of the verse, one sided relationships and the aftermath of the break-up. In this poem, the speaker expresses her sorrow after her lover leaves a message via telephone ending their relationship. It is clear from the way in which the break-up is executed and the haste of the consequent move that the speaker's lover does not place the same value on the connection as the narrator does. This leads one to believe that the lover and the speaker are not on the same plane of emotion which accordingly results in the apathy and distress of the strained relationship thereafter. I can identify with this situation wholeheartedly, because I too have experienced the apathy of emotion from an admired flame sometime ago.

The summer of 2004 was when I met her. She was introduced to me as "deedee", but soon after her real name became known to me. Dara. Beautiful in it's simplicity I became as enchanted with her as I was her name. After a few hour long conversations over the phone, we agreed to meet again. Ecstatic, I waited the whole day constantly primping and preening to display my best for her as I could. As a true and modern gentleman I offered to pick her up from her house, she refused. Instead we agreed upon a simple meeting at her local train station. My stomach was in knots. As I waited I began to practice my courting rituals, reminding myself of how to behave in the presence of such a beautiful young lady. Before I knew it, she had arrived. Until that time I had not known such stunning splendor. She stood an elegant five feet, ten inches tall. Gorgeous, deep brown eyes that seemed to pierce and subdue consciousness. Her luscious, perfectly round, bright pink lips tantalized my curiosity. She possessed a body that every