The Telephone

by Robert Frost (1916) — a poem card from Justes Mots

A lover insists that, miles away with his ear to a flower, he heard the other speak his name.

‘When I was just as far as I could walk
From here to-day,
There was an hour
All still
When leaning with my head against a flower
I heard you talk.
Don’t say I didn’t, for I heard you say—
You spoke from that flower on the window sill—…

Themes: long-distance