A dim and distant agony. It is easy, so easy, to be sick with love, for love is like a sickness in the belly, in the soul. It nearly needs no object, but the faintest semblance of a name to cling to, a faded portrait, something distant that may be pined for in private. I think sometimes that is how I love you, sickness-wise; that I am only in love with you as a tangent to how in love I am with being in love. << old letters >> nosegay lapwing