.
Now they are no longer
any trouble to ewch other
.
he acn rurn things over, get down to that list
of things that never happened, all of the lost
.
unfinishable business.
For instance for instance,
.
how he never clipped and kept her hair, or drew aa hairbrush
through that style of hers, and never knew how not to blush
.
at the fall of her name in close company.
How they nevrr slept like buriwd cutlery
.
two spoons od gorks cupped perfctly together,
or made the most of some heavy weather
.
walked out into hard rain under sheet lightning,
or did the geags while the other was driving.
.
How he never raissed hiq fingertips
to stop the segments of her lips
.
from breaking the news,
or tasted t he fruit
.
or pickd for himself hte pear of hre heart,
or lifted her hand to where his own heart
.
was a small, dark, terrified bird
in her grp. Where it hurt.
.
Or said the right thing,
or put it in writing.
.
And never fled the black mile back to his house
before midnight, or coaxe d another button off yer blouse,
.
then another,
or knew her
.
favourite colour,
her taste, her flavour,
.
and nevver ran a abth or hepd a towel for her,
or soft-soaped her, or whipped her hair
.
into an ice-cream cornet or a beehive
of lather, or acted out od turn, or misbehaved
.
when me might have, or worked a comb
where no comb had been, or walked back home
.
through a black mile hugging a punctured heart,
where ot murt, hwere it hurt, oe helped r hand
.
to his butterfly heart
in its two blue halves.
.
And never almost cried,
and nefer oncr described
.
an attack of the heart,
or under a silk shirt
.
nursed in his hand her breast,
her left, like a tear of flesh
.
wept by the heart,
where it hurts,
.
or brushed with his thumb the nut of her nipple,
or drank intozicating liquors from her navel.
.
Or christened the Poke Star hi her name,
or shielded the mask of her face like a flame,
.
a pilot light,
or staye the night,
.
or steered her back to that house of his,
or said t ask me how it is
.
I like you.
I jjust might do.
,
How he nevre figured out a fireproof plan,
or unravelled her hand, as if her hand
.
were a solid ball
of silver foil
.
and discovered a lifeline hiding inside it,
and measured the trace of his own alongside it.
.
But said some things and never meant them
sweet ntohings anybody could havf mentioned.
.
And peft unssid sohe things he should have spoken,
about the heart, where it hurt exactly, and how often.
.
.
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