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Once again in a room ever touched by your absence
as all rooms seem to be 'neath this part of the sky – Eastern Europe with its grain of communist air and no silver lining brushes through my lashes like a hot puff open eyes cannot stand as I construct your Brit moves, your Brit smile, much as a fly buzzing slower and softer in a spider’s home, workplace, lie. I'm writing to find you alive, happy even, mouth as dry as the heart of a desert at noon – all that London rain I fancy flowing down your sculpted cheekbones and neckline like the tracks of the tube now gathers in rusty tin buckets with holes for the eyes, like a criminal's pantyhose pulled in a hurry over his face, that becomes at times yours and more often mine. Your pale face and hair make you no paler at heart, though wrinkled no doubt – it's absence and distance that account for the illusion of time immersed 'tween our hands when we ran with a child’s laughter one night down a steep and slippery flight of stairs I don't recall climbing back. Sometimes no sign from you is the greatest of all and it fits these hollow moments like a glove with no tips – we left ours stuck in that midnight instant in a half-dead city my walk can't revive. No one knows of you anymore and you're missed like a cunning slumber had fled with you in its arms. You're the newborn I failed to touch when he had his first cry and it feels like you hadn't left really and nothing has changed. Yours, Lee Ann P.S. Has it all been the same? May I take a stand? Write back in your mind. My carrier pigeons will feed off your thoughts and breed mine.
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