If this comes creased and creased again and soiledas if I'd opened it a thousand times to see if what I'd written here was right, it's all because I looked too long for you to put in your pocket. Midnight says the little gifts of loneliness come wrapped by nervous fingers. What I wanted this to say was that I want to be so close that when you find it, it is warm from me
That's from Ted Kooser's book Valentines, which I flipped through the other day. The book collects the annual poems he's been sending out for the past 20-odd years. Kooser read some of the valentines on NPR earlier this year. Most are a bit too ponderous for my taste but there's some good images and quirky personification in some of them.