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Subject: Explanation

Author:
Christine

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Date Posted: 02:15:35 01/15/08 Tue

I fell in edges between your skin
lost in the rise and fall
imagined that you had consumed me
bones and flesh

I gave up the longing for you
gifts that each horizon held
lovingly in passionate breath

I was desire un-named
as my voice silenced your yearning

but the nameless called

fires burned out of control
as my heart fell down in undulating
worship, your hands could not break
the touch of enchantment

poetry was a lost art to you

when I woke up that morning
I knew that each piece of you was gone
your shirt, once crumpled in the corner,
had vanished

shards of my grandmother’s crystal lay
in jagged whispers in the bottom of the sink;
a note with unintelligible scrawl kissed me off
as the stub of an airline ticket hugged the floor

my ache was gone with you

and I have a new name now

© TR

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