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these are things that I could not tell you;
things that remind me of you when I want nothing more than to forget;
things that have gone wrong;
things that have gone right;
things that will never happen;
things that are your fault,
my fault,
the faults of no one;
these are things that we did not do and will not let go of

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• 01 Feb

  21:19 pm

  We Say, Reginald Gibbons

  poetry365:

  We say a heart breaks—like
  a stick, maybe, or a bottle
  or a wave. But it seems
  more like the field clump
  that crackles upward from a match
  and collapses, grass filaments
  sparking in the ash-dust,
  then going out. Today
  I take myself down by steps,
  one at a time, into the sadness
  I admit I can’t always reach.
  There should be a room
  at the bottom of the black stairway,
  my friends sitting with strangers,
  waiting, but there’s no one,
  only the memory, when
  the pale air flickers as if
  it were an invisible flame,
  of my aunt in her hospital bed
  and beside her, about to be left
  alone—the last sister, and so soon—
  my mother, bent over
  the purse in her lap, eyes closed.
  I can see the patent leather gloss
  and the shiny clasp that until
  just now she has been
  snapping open and shut, till—
  just now—it broke. THat breaking—
  like a voice that cracks, cursing
  or crying, or the song that falls,
  out of thinking too far ahead,
  into a smouldering loneliness—
  was that the sound of the heart?

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