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After Neruda

Bradley Bates

What can I say in response to a love lost
without anything to remain but shards

of memory under the sea? What can I do
but return to you and myself a time with

so many memories and stories so powerful
stars can be seen ending each smile? Who

cast a breath across the latitude of the sea?
Who will take my memories like a hand

and swim to an unknowable depth, and
a breath, a sigh, can filter out of me, like

a small bubble tinier than a pea? Where can
I go to ask nature for a hand in memory

as seconds pass into minutes into hours
at sea unforgettable a touch, a caress can be

to hold you against me for a lifetime?



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