Valentine from Anne Sexton

Happy Valentine's Day! 

I've been thinking about the many ways we can love.

How so many days we can walk into the world with hearts open or broken, sometimes both. Sometimes our heart is a swinging door that feels more like a saloon--people in, people out, and someone has spilled the bowl of peanuts and the floor is a little stickier than we wished.

But sometimes, there are moments when we can feel how much we are connected and how our heart doesn't have a limited seating sign, but can be a room that continues to expand and invite others in.


So I send you love today and I hope this note finds you in a place where even if there's not as much love as you like, you keep an OPEN FOR BUSINESS sign in the window. Maybe something flashy and neon, beating Open, Open, Open...

Happy Valentine's Day, friend...even if you despise chocolates and pink carnations.

And in case you don't hear it enough, You are loved.

xo,
Kelli



P.S. Here's a love poem from me made into a short film by American filmmaker, Sarah Durn:
"Love Waltz with Fireworks" 


And some more love from Anne Sexton: 

Love? Be it man. Be it woman.
It must be a wave you want to glide in on,
give your body to it, give your laugh to it,
give, when the gravelly sand takes you,
your tears to the land. To love another is something
like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall
into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.

 
              from "Admonitions To A Special Person" by Anne Sexton
  xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo  

Kelli Russell Agodon
Poet/Writer/Editor, Two Sylvias Press   kelli@agodon.com Website: www.agodon.com  

Dialogues with Rising Tides, forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2021