"Second Person" by Rae Armantrout

Second Person

Lemons, lanterns

hang late

into the evening.

But you are known

for your voluptuous retreat,

for leaving

your absence

on the air,

illicit, thin.

I know

you think

I wonder

if you think

of me.

This reflection

spins,

a bead on a string.

I can take it with me.

Source of the text - Rae Armantrout, Money Shot.  Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2011, page 32.

TJB: You-niverse. The personal address, and I-thou nature of lyric poetry, forms some of the subject of this lyric. “I wonder if you wonder.”