3/30/13

VALENTINE INSIDE
By john harper


here’s a valentine for you;
you’re here

opening my heart
to the world;
inside

is a valentine for you—

you place its lush, red vertigo
in you;

i gladly follow

and am in your heart
before you ever
need to look
for me—


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john harper went to MFA poetry school, and some of his poems have been published by literary journals like MID-AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW and CUTBANK. The main point is he’s in Reading, PA, finally walking down Main Street of the heart.