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You’re not there

Side by side as we were

Sitting stretched sometimes

Sighing and nodding

Chasing certain phrases

Folded together newspaper pages

Worn into the margins

It’s your turn - speak

You keep stuhm

I pass you in the hall

I turn leftward

You were always apart

Right from the start

Recital of things we’ve done

and smile

I choke on what's left to say

Tick it down

Lick it clean

First kiss

Last sigh

You remember why?

Picklock forgiveness -

Not to forget

A startled beau geste flight

Back to beauty

A world without not yet

Reflections that never tire

Shyness a bookmark

Stamped not to expire

The film in that camera

Picture you pregnant

Me at work

A small posse of neighbours

Leash and a dog

Happiness in a cry

A sympathy card

A lighted candle flame

Let’s not go there again

Strange and new

How we become

that hateful thing

We do not know

Yet we clung.

You and me in that flight apart

How we used to be

At the start...