Almost in the Quicksand

Almost in the Quicksand by Frank Amjentan

"Almost in the Quicksand" is a poem written by American poet Frank Amjentan and published in 1977 by Savant, a not-for-profit literary publisher.

I could not love you,
a woman whose love
issued from her clothing
like the fetor of dirty socks,
a love
learned from another man
whose love was silk
and hung on every clothesline,
a man whose heart
was hiding in the paperbacks
under his bed,
no, I could not love
you whose love
beckoned like quicksand,
I might have been
too far under
when I realized
he still had his hands on you

This work is in the public domain worldwide because it has been so released by the author.