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departures

i cannot write a goodbye poem i am leaving nothing behind but the shadows in the

walls my eyes left in the clouds a memory on a window pane whispers in corners

of this rink circusboxingskating depending my footsteps crisscross the images left

on floors blood-melodies crashing moods minding mingling mind lost in the ceiling

where the bats live i always outside out round windows square in my eyes eyes

smelling the hills and trapping pictures long gone stuck on a ferriswheel to the one

side turn turn turn boards hang low but my sight lifts higher than the shingles up

near the tall lean palm i catch the breezes wild around my head and the red flowers

explode the four winds not wide enough for the wiles of my tongue or for the love that

dusts these doorways for the memories unfrozen to liquid in my eyes fastened forevermore

around my neck like diamonds and coals in beauty and in me me moving with the times

paper walls stronger than the thoughts that entered the arches and out through the blinds

that blind my eyes a frost of undetected time that lingers way past a decent while to stay

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