Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Ornaments

Words
          hang
                  in the space
between us,

shiny, unfinished sonnets.

Sometimes I ponder
plucking one out of the air,
gently placing it in your palm...


Instead

we sidestep, maneuver, shift our weight.

We pass small talk back and forth,
scraps of a conversation that was,
idle equities to fill the time.


Nothing between us has ever been small.

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