"Back Talk" and "Trespass"

Back Talk

This was how I learned

Eternity

all foes gone

Just me here now

And free to vary

Trespass

It’s a long dream to keep the clouds

That they might trespass on blue light

Cool or lush against the skin

Perfumed so daylight kisses evening

Peaceably like a soft meal

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Handprints on the inner door

She likes to think she’s home

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Undreamt snowfall

Keeps sweet flowers

Dry to brush the walkway

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He writes to say he hopes I’m smiling

Sometimes I do, sometimes

I fasten on a photograph

When he was smiling.