Kevin Varrone is an American author and poet, he is the author of: G-Point Almanac: Passyunk Lost (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010). He is a cofounder of Kevin Varrone is an American author and poet, he is the author of: G-Point Almanac: Passyunk Lost (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010). He is a cofounder of Beautiful Swimmer Press and teaches literature and writing at Temple University. “Poem I Wrote Sitting Across the Table From You,” is a poem of love and the thoughts he is thinking in the moment he writes this. He begins this poem talking about two nickels then ends the poem by talking about holding this person’s hand. These thoughts seem random and jumbled however are a great expression of his love for this person even if he does not directly state it or use the word love.

if I had two nickels to rub together
I would rub them together

like a kid rubs sticks together
until friction made combustion

and they burned
a hole in my pocket

into which I would put my hand
and then my arm

and eventually my whole self––
I would fold myself

into the hole in my pocket and disappear
into the pocket of myself, or at least my pants

but before I did
like some ancient star

I’d grab your hand