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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?
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