That was the time you caught
the mumps and I was half
afraid I’d catch it too.

Walking home from the lecture on Frankenstein
through the November mizzle, small breaths of exhaust
sighing in the twilight headlights, particles of wet air commingling.

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It doesn’t trust paper. It writes itself
in my head where no one can reach it,
laugh, tear it to shreds, or
call it a waste of space, a disgrace.

It was a quiet day—
no bad news,
no sudden loss,
no reason to hold my breath.

I think today of the boy in choir class
who closed his eyes when we sang
about Jesus. Who swayed, as if the Lord

We saw a kingfisher threading the bright needle
of his body along the river. We saw a shag, stamping
her prehistoric shadow on the sky. We saw a hobby,

My double sits before me now. I stare deep into her, as I do every day after midnight. When I raise my hands, she raises hers.