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One that's not mine, that I like—

The Missing

Bob, father of my first girlfriend, who had lost his leg,
once told me about phantom limbs,
how the end of his stump

lied every so often,
nerve and muscle telling his brain, walk

as his eyes blinked true at what was gone.

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On the roof of her apartment in lower Manhattan
my friend Meg begins
to read her poem.

It's just past 9/11.
We gaze downtown, towards the smoldering hole
they're still clearing away.

Meg reads:

The amputee insists
Her legs are still
Down there

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Bob said what helped were the dreams;
Both limbs remembered, reunited.

Those nights, his wife watched
as he'd loll on the bed
the way a dog,
asleep on a carpet, chases

what can't be caught.

—Cornelius Eady

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paper wings

fragile things are paper wings
and forests that are felled

eyes gaze out over fields of dead and
endless open sky

nothing recognized, no landmark or guide
hear the bitter cold of silence

deafening... no birds sing or coyotes wailing cries
here sunrise burns

and sunset waits
for night

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I slipped,
tripped,
and

f
e
l
l

but you still love me
trying to suck acceptance
from my throat
and leave your mark
all at once.

At the beginning of every week
the vein that carries my life-force to my brain
is left sore,
drawing my fingertips
to be reminded of you-
(it isnt
as tho i could ever forget)

How i hate the sick silence the weekdays bring.

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I like that

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thank you... this is where i hide my secret poems now... shhhhhh! lolol!!!

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He whispers :

You only ever let me hold you for a second

But a moment is the only courage i have
grasping my words like a baby
grasps their blankie.

Theres so much ive somehow
untaught myself
that i may take a while to catch up.

Be patient...

Subr

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That made me salivate in so many ways, i dont know whether i want to bite and taste you, or kiss you...

lolol!!!



Really tho, that WAS very good... Good enough to win that contest on the other side...

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lolol, i like it. In poem form tho, lolol

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( and thank you for your kind words )

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Your welcome. And anyway youre just naturally good at it, lolol. Yes. I am working on that...

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