‘Divine Love’ by Eve Young

Divine Love

What is love?—
The dead plant
suddenly blooming
when the gardener
waters it; the crazy
foolish joy that says,
he is definitely a god.



Eve Young is a writer from West Yorkshire. Her poetry has been published, or is forthcoming, in New Feathers Anthology, BRUISER, Epiphany, The Journal, and Home Planet News, and longlisted for the AUB International Poetry Prize.