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Union

Walker Manning Hughes

��It’s a nimble little foreign coupe, electric blue and too sly to snare. So I pedal a little farther each day. From the A&P to the photo shop on Tuesday. Flea market to country store Wednesday. At the blinking light I catch a glimpse of silken chestnut hair. Near the water tower the almond sweetness of perfume whispers candied promises.
��I draw closer and closer to our union.
��Friday fathers a cozy brick house where glazed windows radiate patient invitation. On anxious tiptoes I gaze towards forever. There is a plush velvet sofa and a soft artificial fire, half-drained glasses of Burgundy balanced over piled pearl carpet, a man not too unlike me. And even without the tidy starched apron or worn silver nametag, I know her. Nadine.
��Only, this man knows her more.
��I swallow and decide. I am too late.
��Overhead, a pinprick star twitters, struggling against the oppressive flood of night, preaching courage in the face of failure. I lurch away, remembering a cross-town hamburger stand where ash blond hair beckons, and where even over the fries and onion rings there reigns a bright flowery aroma.



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