The First Poem I Wrote, I Wrote for
You

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class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Steady rain now, the
sky grey behind the pine trees

style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">&;amp; the rain streaked on the
window like tears

 

style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">the grass is brown around the house, a
child reading

simple words in the grey light: brown, grass,
house

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class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">I watch the truck
drive away with my words

style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">In the rain, my silences flowing down
the empty street

 

style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">When I loved, I loved deeply. It wasn't
often.

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class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">In this room the boxes
are empty &;amp; rain is falling

style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">I imagine the journey you have shown me,
the window you make

 

style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">With your eyes, the soft desert sand
drifting in sun like rain

style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">&;amp; all things come in balance: in
the woods a jay's 
blue feathers

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class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">broken &;amp;
scattered in its blood, the owl's talon-scuffs in the pine
needles

&;amp; my spirit rises with its broad wings, silent, through
the dark trees?

 

style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">I remember your face and it is for me a
clear lake

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class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">The symmetry of your
body &;amp; your desire in the dawn light

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Is like this rain, it
speaks your name in every language

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class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">The drops that fall on
my hands, when I stretch my hands to touch you

class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">The sweet wind that
washes over me, the waves of sky &;amp; cloud

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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">How this moment gathers
you

Where all roads lead, the silk of your skin your voice my
hand

 

style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Against your mouth so gentle, watching
you

Across the crowded dance floor, your slight hips
swaying

 

style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">In the amber rain of dusk my heart
rising like the wind all things converging

style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">In this moment I speak your name style="mso-spacerun: yes">    my
amulet 
t.

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