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Tuesday, November 04, 2008

the key turns in the door

And if I must recall
the ways love spoke to me
I think that no one,
not a living soul,
would understand
that it is in
the ordinary,

the way

love dances

(if you're lucky)
with a supermarket trolley
or carries home
a mop

or puts another pot
of breakfast tea

upon a kitchen table,
strewn
with debris
from a life
inconsequential,

or reads aloud
the novels of Neil Gaiman
and John Wyndham
(in which a field mouse
yearns to bite
the nut of wisdom

and three-legged plants,
carnivorous
and deadly,
race to the edges of imagination)

love lives forever on
beyond
mere hope
where anything ...

where everything ...
is possible.

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