yesterday
in the swirling maze of the tall city
on avenues that harnessed shadows
and let me walk unencumbered by memory
i saw you
i had forgotten your face
the women between here and there
the browns of their cheeks
the beauty of their shoulders
sometimes so muddled in my memory
who was i loving then?
what midnight did darkness surround us in?
was it you who once left before i could touch you?
and the amazing machine city
the daytime carousel of events and traffic
time
and the shadows of clocks
the vinyl sounds of bright pigeons
lifting
off
into weather
i saw you
you were looking at me
and memory fast as vision
hurtling gazes
one face to another
in that fragrant recognition of
shared breath and silence
intimacy cooled my mouth
(our kisses still exist somewhere behind my tongue)
we smiled
and greeted
held hands a second too long
i almost kissed you i swear
almost
held you too close
almost
tasted your ear and left
an indigo invitation in the small of your back
but i let you go
and watched you in the crowds
watched you
looking back at me
calling and
disappearing
moving into
the infinite fanning
of the alluvial
future
until i
lost you
in the
sheer
number
of faces
calico
shadows
and
echo
i n g
s o u n d s
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