"I Remember Reading You"

~ from "Quiet World":

I remember reading you – each page
      I turned with you laid out upon my pillow
      I stuttered and I sped through it as though
I thought the fastest finish time could gauge
How much I’d learned from you, but at this stage
      I would have learned as much had I gone slow,
      As I should have read you, so I would know
You, and not to have desires assuaged.
But now I can remember only notions –
      And left with vague suggestions of your value,
      What is there really to be said of you?
I certainly, at first, gave my devotion
      But frustrated with how I never grew
      I walked away in search of novel views.

June 5