You are perfect for me

Rebecca Wolff

because you’re psychic
no one else could understand me
the way you

do and

I say
Drink Me

I say it to you silently
but it calls forth in me

the water for you
the water you asked for

About This Poem

“I don’t know much about love but I know when someone’s reading my mind! This poem is one of those that just occurred, like love does.”
—Rebecca Wolff

Rebecca Wolff is the author of Warden (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2014) and One Morning— (Wave Books, forthcoming, 2015). She is the editor of Fence and a fellow at the University at Albany’s New York State Writers Institute. Wolff lives in Hudson, New York.

Most Recent Book by Wolff

Warden

(Ugly Duckling Presse, 2014)

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March 27, 2015