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for each other. And
me. I bet they
hated me because
I kept them together.
Drove them
apart. Reminded them
of what they should be,
and how incapable
they were of being it.
THE REST OF THE NIGHT
Was lost to the voice
of the wind calling
down over the Sierra.
Something familiar
about that keening,
too. Some part of me
longing to hear it again
after all these years.
I listened for hours,
until finally it calmed.
And in the lull, doubt
lifted, a ghost shrugging
off flesh. Nothing stays
the same. So how can
you trust anything?
How can you believe?
I got up, went into
the bathroom. Arranged
the toiletries by color.
Rearranged them by height.
