![In the coffee house](https://www.writerscafe.org/images/no_image_s.jpg) |
We sit.
Empty coffee cup and magazine
pages flip.
I want to move beyond myself.
The coffee house is like any
other,
filled w..
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![These thoughts were once beautiful](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/d3485e3e16d6daa069d57eb27d1713f6.jpg) |
How is it that I can love you
as much as I do?
So much so that it breaks my
heart
when the sound of your voice
dies away from my ear.
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![Seasons’ loss and reason](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/f303b03825eb55ef8f5fa511f68916ed.jpg) |
You, like falling leaves upon a
lotus
pond. I, a heart entombed in winter’s frost,
fading circles of love circuitous
as my fing..
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![For Bernice, after Vivian:](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/56270f306edd31d0c1f3af26b1d2c7e7.JPG) |
Hurt does not need words.
In pain, wisdom unwanted,
and loss heralds spring.
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![The rumour](https://www.writerscafe.org/images/no_image_s.jpg) |
The hook,
suspended from the ceiling
just behind the front door,
was where they found--
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![Scars](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/80e4eb7016a8c1dd4d7b1a80e12a4540.jpg) |
Manywant to lookknow to see
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![To visit the ghosts](https://www.writerscafe.org/images/no_image_s.jpg) |
Long leaves, grass blades, lie dampened, pressed intomoss, a laden seaof bone-white--
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![To take time](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/4d3b7ccb7a8036079c11ba937137ffe9.JPG) |
Travelling by train:
Rome--Florence, spring wind is still.
Eyes captures nothing.
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![Saturday](https://www.writerscafe.org/images/no_image_s.jpg) |
By 6:59
I reach
the subway,
heart pounding,
buy token,
down escalator.
7:04? No, 7:05.
And then it comes.
Wisps whispe..
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![Rome](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/0c4c0848af5e150b101c6a589eb3cca7.jpg) |
Do not look for it
in cobblestoned roads,
nor in the beauty
of the decay that even stone
structures must face,
nor in the gra..
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