Love Poem by Donald Hall

When you fall in love, 
you jockey your horse 
into the flaming barn.  

You hire a cabin 
on the shiny Titanic. 
You tease the black bear. 

Reading the Monitor,

you scan the obituaries
	
looking for your name.   

~ from White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected 
Poems 1946-2006.  Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006.