September 27, 2011

Untitled, unrevised. sept. 26, 2011

We live in short bursts,
         weekend visits,
THRIVE on hard goodbyes,
      you are lost to me
for now
        as we are the receding tides,
stroking back and fourth,
 licking the shore
          we lack permanence
     the bone dry affection
                               constricting
as I open up then retract
        retreating back to what I know
              the taste of alone on the back of my tongue,
but I refuse to swallow.
        

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