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OK.

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OK.

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"Deconstruction."

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If it was you I loved, then
I merely imagined a dream

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with no borders.

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I imagined the blackbirds,
sleek and heavy in the rain.

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The train in the distance,
orange and smoking,

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disguise the cricketing horizon.

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I imagined the day.

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I imagined the night too.

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White ships passing
for delivery trucks

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breathing heavy in the peat.

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Of our stillness, I
imagined our dreaming.

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Then waking in the
middle of the night,

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you whispering your
dream of a man laughing,

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and men laughing on
the sidewalk outside.

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When I touched your
face, it was a shadow

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for I even imagined the
darkness we received at night.

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Your nightly fear of
disappearing as shadows

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fear of disappearing
too, and I assured you

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we were not, for
I imagined both.

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The fear and the disappearance,
warm light in the kitchen,

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not a coat hook, not shoes,
not keys, not wanting to leave.

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And where you have
gone, are there

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hours where I disappear too?

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Yes, I imagined us laughing.

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I was not a man, but a blackbird
cawing before departure.

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The train getting darker, an
antic twilight going farther

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than the dark imagined
sky, imagining heat,

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imagining ardor.

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Imagining so much wanting
to be moved by love.

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