Variation on a Love Letter
Holly Welker · Dialogue A Journal of Mormon Thought · 1992
In it I tell you that the days are starkly blue and unbearably warm, that the cooling storms of late July seem too far away, or maybe I say that the cold nights are darkly comforting as long as I am inside and warm.Each time I have written this letter to you I have held my pen still in the air for just a minute and said to myself, This is a new page.I say, You can do a lot with a new page, but you can't do everything.Then the pen is down and the ink flows out and down, like the last time, like the next time.In one letter you wrote to me you said, Repetition with variation.You said rhyme is repetition with variation.