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Laura

Updated: 6 days ago

“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.” (Marcel Proust)


(for LP)


Too long ago and too far, I still see the corners of her smile curl

like a puppy heart,


--and set a stray red rose over one ear, commemorative & cute

like a ghost of a girl


is just what I'd have done! A hero's chance return, though, to a glad

past sunny June,


and not another day more, did feel for a time blessed with dark

hair and eyes still,


and not one word more or day. Even at the school gate the best I

could do, a rose-bearer,


--or in a dusty hallway where she'd dutifully sung & preened in my light,

like a young teacher--


the best I could do was look and let a girl who always went straight home

settle like a dream,


(2025)











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