Sunday, March 22, 2009

I Have Not Seen You

...but slowly you are
forming above my head, white as
petals, white as milk, the dark
narrow stems of your
ankles and wrists,
until you are always with me,
a flowering branch suspended
over my life.
~ for E.J.T. 1973-2009
&
C.V.O. 1995-2009

from Absent One, by Sharon Olds

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