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Then this next one
is shaped like a rose

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and I insisted that
the stem be crooked.

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"Of the twelve, only
you still looked up,

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lovesick one, one
overcome by lust.

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The moment dictated what I did.

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The greenery wet, the
attar expelled, a crest.

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What if we were to meet again?

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Once more, pale warmth.

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Last Tuesday, my letter
went to her early.

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I must be willing to change,
mailing her that letter.

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Letter on top of
letter, summer saga,

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the paper open in
every direction,

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quavery phantom letters in lieu
of petals, down to lost time.

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Letter on top of letter
falls under the wheels.

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All of her youth was
bitter to remember.

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Her sweet rye king
sandwiches, the sticky honey.

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Presence, absence,
a change of worlds.

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Your indifference grows.

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My patience attenuates.

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The facets of a letter refolded.

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She'd have refolded the
letter, her lips closed tight.

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A change of worlds.

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A train pulling away
into a far, flat land.

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The brain enters into a drizzle,
a continuo, a change of worlds,

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a change of worlds.

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How was it for her?

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Did she die easy?

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Last Thursday or Friday,
my letter went to her.

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I do not know, my friend.

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I was not there.

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I can name the year
I had them, had

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taken them in and photographed
them, the one-colored roses.

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In August 1914, Germany invaded
France, and the war began.

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I held in my hand a
passage for New York

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from Marseilles,
paper for my future.

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Though they made
their goodbyes to me

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in the tenderest
beige of the day,

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they could hardly
believe the going away.

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Now I understand.

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They never wanted
to be photographed,

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or painted either.

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Now I think I understand.

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They wanted to be turned
into glass, translucent

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and stained."

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