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Monday, July 31, 2006

Leaving work early

cooking pasta:
as the evening wraps its
arms around the hills,
the breezes sigh with contentment.
Distilled, chilled tones of grey
bathe the surroundings in longing.

how i have schemed and manipulated others
for this moment to be mine:
to wait and watch the swelling
of the tide; my thoughts dancing
in the candle light; the birds' last
song in flight as words are printed
on the page.

and i have no regrets in distressing you over
and over again: the cars that caress
the sweet tar, the children with their
bicycles journeying
into the dusk, the altar lights of devotion
from pin-sized apartment windows.

Leaving work without guilt;
knowing my god-given right.

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