A Blessing for Relationships

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Franklin Abbott's poem "A Blessing for Relationships," written in 1983.

Courtesy of Special Collections & Archives, Georgia State University Library, Gender and Sexuality Collections, #W2013-40x-054.

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Poem Broadside; Text: A Blessing for Relationships. I bless the season that happens between us / that is the growth of new green Spring - / tendril, moss and budding branches // I bless the season that happens between us / that is the flower of our laughter / and the tender leaf of our love // I bless the season that happens between us / when we ripen and harvest / what our dreaming together / has brought into being // I bless the season that happens between us / that is bare like the sky void of moon / only the stars distant in time / giving a shape / to the endless space of night. Franklin Abbott c1983.