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you still in the flight of philadelphia-

Elena Botts

that flat wind? it blows here too-
along the tracks we mark where they stop-
the freight we hope will carry one of us westward.
i know your hours
as i know
none of my own years,
my going round the world and united nations,
the child of maine winter who has fled
my lives of strangers, them, stranger, me
the long great road to berlin, tbilisi, johannesburg, kathmandu,
the affairs and empty houses.
i am still out looking for some dedication but after the first snow
here is the house that no one built
but in this cold the boy with the dog will go, as the radiators
begin their hissing.
an ache at my words? what great ache-
now i will have no poetry, not when
that voice you are out of money
and what did i lose
you can have it again too,
like that white space
i lay like open my heart.
how many cups can i keep in the window
in and out of the memory spell you can find their shadows in the middle
of the afternoon that passes by
first the sun on the closet door, then on the opposing wall
until it reaches the outdoors
this view i will take a picture of every day
give it enough evenings to smell like someone’s home
not i who wanders, not i who yearns
not i who keeps your locket love where first you buried it,
not i who you hearkened to in contemplation. no, come,
be warm where i am cold. i will meet you at the station.

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