Love Poems through The Appalachian Trail Summary

Love Poems

A man writes a beautiful poem for his lover. He will send it to her so she gets it for Valentine's Day. He is very proud of his work. It is the best he has ever written. His lover will keep it with his other letters. She will not show it to anyone since she is a private person. As an afterthought, he decides to submit it to a poetry magazine for possible publication. He also decides to give a copy to his wife and also to a friend in England, who is a poet and will love it.

Night

A man is sleeping in his bed and hears the sound of his child breathing in the next room. He wakes his wife who simply says, "yesterday" and falls immediately back...