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Once, each summer, I howl, and draw myself back, out of there
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we sweated side by side three times like a spell or a curse
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the sight pierces me with tenderness, he was suffering, then, as I would soon.
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He was so handsome it was kind of adorable when he looked horrible.
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Maybe I’m half over who hewas, but not who I thought he was, and notover the wound, sudden deathblowas if out of nowhere, though it came from the coreof our life together.
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Sleep and dream—but not of his return.
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I am glad not to have lost him entirely, but to see him movedat the whim of the sky, like a man in the wind
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he is like an icon, he is like a fantasy.I did not know him, I knew my ideaof him.
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I do not letgo of him yet, but hold the stringand watch my idea of him pull awayand stay, and pull away, my silver kite.
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