I see some typos I missed...am reposting it, corrected.
Hoping this will inspire the same response that the mom-dad poems did!
Jane
THE ABSENT-MINDED LOVER'S APOLOGY
I would like you to think I love you warmly
Like brown cat yawning among sheets in the linen cupboard.
I would like you to think I love you resourcefully
Like rooftop starlings posting chuckles down the flue.
I would like you to think I love you extravagantly
Like black cat embracing the floor when you pick up the can-opener.
I would like you to think I love you accurately
Like Baskerville kern that fits its place to a T.
I would like you to think I love you with hurrahs and halleujahs
Like dog
whippetting at you down the intricate hillside.
I would like you to think I love you wittily
Like pottery Cox that lurks in the fruit-bowl under the Granny Smiths.
I would like you to think I love you pacifically and for ever
Like collared doves on the whitebeam's domestic branch.
I would like you to think I love you chronologically
Like second hand solemnly navigating the clock.
And O I want to love you, not in the absent tense, but in the here and the now
Like a present-minded lover.
(from Hand in Hand, an anthology of love poems compiled by carol Ann Duffy)
This is now correct - I just checked it against the original.
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