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Your simple gestures                    
are soliloquies to me                    
I read the tilt of your brow                    
or a restless swipe of your hair                    
like a passionate note                    
                    
my imagination is dogeared                    
for the turning                    
some corners folded over                    
for a second or eighth perusal                    
but then                    
who writes the poem                    
never to end?                    
I’ve memorized all of the lines                    
on page one thousand and ten                    
                     
I can recite them by heart                    
                     
even left the hardcopy                    
out in the rain                    
and gathered it up wet                    
for a tender drying                    
                     
then started all over                    
at the preface again                    
for the trying                    
                     
the alphabets’ faded                    
some sentences gone                    
dear one I’m not jaded                    
but I’ve read through to dawn                    
                     
is there a second volume?
Written by Pigeonheart
Published | Edited 2nd May 2020
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