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Poetry: Far away

by Elisabeth Long

Shower

Far away I hear you

turn a faucet

part a curtain

step inside and sigh

Heat and vapor draw me

-robe slips down

past shoulders, down

over thighs

I pause

then enter-the warmth

-where you are.


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