Love Letter
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ot easy to state the change you made.If I’m alive now, then I was dead,Though, like a stone, unbothered by it,Staying put according to habit. You didn’t just toe me an inch, no—Nor leave me to set my small bald eyeSkyward again, without hope, of course,Of apprehending blueness, or stars. That wasn’t it. I slept, say: a snakeMasked among black rocks as a black rockIn the white hiatus of winter— Like my neighbors, taking no pleasure
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