“My lips and eyes and heart were stinging when you kissed me in the dark. — Jack Garton to Jennifer Hammer, 2008 (age 24)”
Jeanette Lynes“…it was not whim or wildness which made me go, but a sudden clear realization that tho you were the first man of importance to me, you could not be the last. — Gwendolyn MacEwen to Milton Acorn, 1963 (age 21)”
Jeanette Lynes, Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets“My lips and eyes and heart were stinging when you kissed me in the dark. — Jack Garton to Jennifer Hammer, 2008 (age 24)”
Jeanette Lynes, Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets“This skin cripples me. It always has. — Kai Cheng Thom to -----, 2013 (age 22)”
Jeanette Lynes, Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets