Deep
Who was I that summer
I met you? Loose with desire
I moved like cream before it’s churned to butter
and men I hardly knew
stopped me in supermarket aisles, B & Q,
to talk about nothing, standing closer than they needed to;
when a day without talking
to you splintered my mind – snapping
at people I loved, hiding upstairs with a phone, crying
at night; that night
you left and I sat in the dark, the polite
bones of your words sharpening with the sneak of light,
afraid of the days
opening like empty rooms, a maze
of your absence: a puzzle the years haven’t erased.
Lynne Rees
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