![]() ![]() We forgot to breathe Then you would wake, When your need for me was distant Then we could wear our real facesĮtched with pain, and discuss those toenails,Īnd your beloved tractors, and how sometimes Of your dying as much as your living I remember the stink of yourīloated with just more grief They adopted my version of you, I did it as a reminder I surround myself with mementos On my face under yellow morning light Sometimes they bump into each other She breathes in my blood He walks in my bones I watch them marking territory Wearing smiles they no longer own They are facing each other Grown tall and paper thin Still and shiny memoriesĬatching in the cracks of time Shadows of husbandsĭrifting off like tumbleweeds Rolling into other destinies She busies herself clinging ![]() Transfixed by yellow stars on a flat blue sky Held to me by words, the weight of Babar,Ĭonvinced by a cunning black cat in a striped hat, In the checkout line strangers mistook you Pointing sticky fingers and pleading your caseįor chocolates or yoyos to my adult arbitration We had finally traveled all the way apart On the day of your high school graduation ![]()
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