Psyche falls for Cupid’s gentle whispers in the dark.
Beauty learns to like the Beast’s droll dinner-table snark.
In “East of the Sun,” a woman weds a polar bear:
gentlemanly manners help her see past all that hair.
Cyrano’s raw, heartfelt letters captivate Roxane.
Online chats help You’ve Got Mail’s Meg Ryan snag her man.
Shop Around the Corner’s lead pair forms a bond through post,
even though in real life he’s the one she hates the most.
Love Is Blind’s a show where couples stoke love’s fires through walls.
Harlequin romances feature meet-cutes at masked balls.
Characters in fantasy meet in the mist of dreams:
waking, they recall gull-shrieks and shadows of triremes.