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aurora rain
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since 2000-11-15
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0 posted 2001-08-13 01:42 AM


i was exact this morning.
fifty-five cents in change,
heart clung to pocket in a leaden despair
never here, never there--
never across the shore, like i'd hoped.
and i didn't know. the calender never
changes. the pages never turn. the year
is never over but
this year's love
is like a dishtowel, binding,
binding my hands to a promise across
a heart i swore i could never reach
a day i swore would never come
a light i swore i'd never see
a response so calculating i'd swear
it came from someone else
(was it something i said?)

this year was the year i'd fall
in love. encircled in black, the
calendar's even marked.


and then. i said nothing at all.
because your eyes flew over mine
the way pelicans do before a rain
and your heart stumbled over mine
the way angels stumble over sin.
and nothing here fits

but i promise. i'll be better this year.


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MoonShadow
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since 2001-08-02
Posts 943
Dark side of the Moon.
1 posted 2001-08-13 01:45 AM


Would that we could plan so. Nice write.
shadow of the fall
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since 2001-08-13
Posts 83
Indiana
2 posted 2001-08-13 06:56 AM


your words beg to be read over and over. This is wonderful.
passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26
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displaced
3 posted 2001-08-13 07:29 AM


nothing fits here...boy, do I know the feeling of that!
aurora rain
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since 2000-11-15
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4 posted 2001-08-13 01:24 PM


well.....thank you. i'm very rusty, havent posted in awhile...here anyway  
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