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Last Look

Anna Maria Hansen

One long last look
memorizing all the complexities
of you.
As if I needed to.

One long last look
where the escape of breath
punctuated our silence,
measuring the space between.

Standing on the threshold
of change,
granted one look back.
I saw you and me
what we were, what we couldn’t be.
A moment too fragile for tears
so I laughed instead, as I always do,
and when all the air was gone,
lungs vacant and deflated,
empty, needing new breath,
I paused, took one

long
last
look

inhaled,
and you were gone.

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