• Vol. 07
  • Chapter 09
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The Photograph

My body knows this one already.
It and I have done this all before.
When the city throws down shadows
in the evening when the upright parts
Of you –

             forehead,
             shoulders,
             chin,
             your spine,
             your line
             of sight
             your inch
             of time

             – straighten mine.
My body answers
back. Not my knees
bending not my heart
beating not my teeth
cracking but the distance
from here to the door might undo me.



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The Photograph

For as long as you love
I will love for as long as you
Love I will be building
Spite houses, spite fences
Spite walls. Don't
cross it yet. I will swim
Around those things too long
Too much too wrong for
this. I need
Just moments and small love.

The loneliness of being
Without you makes it all
enough to bear.

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