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Love On Wings

San Xavier Mission by Sara Fryd

I held a mirror up to you

So you could see the fire

You carry deep

The voice you crave to share

With the hunger of years

One cannot retrieve

No matter the longing.

You reversed the mirror for me

So I could visit my own reflection

Hear [...]

Last light of day warms the heart

Like chili stew warms the ribcage

During the early frosts of December nights.

You’ve left to “find yourself,”

Somewhere else

Though not here.

I am lugubriously left

To find your face

Amongst black and whites or sepia [...]

Our lives…

Tiny patches of squares or triangles

Of a hand sewn quilt that sometimes fit or not…

Pieces discovered, overlapped, tucked in

held together tightly

with bits of colored thread.

Do you remember

The sound that lightning makes

in the Arizona desert at twilight

before all the stars appear?

Feelings sung aloud as music

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