Sunday, October 25, 2015

Friends Do Not Love

No, we just listened to each other
To connect our souls; practice,
Perhaps, for the times when those we loved
Would need us
To hear them,
To help them attach themselves
To us as the young buds
Attach to the spring growth of the Sycamore trees
That dot the way between Davis and Truckee
On Interstate 80.

You listened to me well
Enough to cement the ephemeral bond
Between us; so faint
It is not visible
Even in the early morning’s pure light
But too strong to fade with the scrubbings
Of time or distance.

So I delight in the news
That you’ve attached new ears
That hear you with their tiny hearts beating
Close to yours, capturing the two of you
Under the kinds of nets that are made

From that same ephemeral bond.

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