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THIS AGING Cheryl Townsend My libido twists not quite the spiral float of a leaf downward but more so the droop of a smile when I say no TIME WAS WHEN Cheryl Townsend my hair would tangle around your fingers and sweat would pool in the cup of my navel When we were the only people who could not hear things neither of us remembered saying Time was when and then it was gone EVEN INTO MAY Cheryl Townsend We don’t need any more rain It’s been pouring now for weeks Everything is shifting and I don’t even know the time There are trees & wires & spirits down There are sump pumps giving up There are cars stalled in overruns and things in my yard not mine HOW WE LEFT IT Cheryl Townsend I walk on your shadow with 4 inch heals It goes one way and I turn to go the other

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