Roadside Toolkit...

O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love

I like being with you all night with closed eyes.
What luck—here you are
coming
along the stars!
I did a road trip
all over my mind and heart
and
there you were
kneeling by the roadside
with your little toolkit
fixing something.

Give me a world, you have taken the world I was                                                                                 -Anne Carson

Originally published in Poem-a-Day on December 10, 2020, by the Academy of American Poets and posted here by permission of the author