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"The First Snow Without Him"--

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like someone has perforated
the day's picture,

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flurries start
blurring the landscape.

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She looks first
to the front lawn,

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and then to the back lawn, as if
the two places, separated only

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by a house and her
inside of it, might

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have wholly divergent weather.

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The hush of snow, the way
it brings all the trees down

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to a rumor, a movie sound going
pause, the subjects engulfed--

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to say he was cruel is not true.

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To say he was never
cruel is not true.

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One advises to
think of kindnesses,

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the wish on an eyelash,
the joint hijinks.

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It's easier to see only
wounds, not the whole big man

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rising in the tub, the
voice sounding like water,

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a towel tugged between you.

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You see, she refused
to forgive in order

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to love a little longer.

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The image of his naked
body comes to her freely,

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and she erupts at
the thought of him,

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trapped in whiteness
like the snow.

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