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Vestige of Someone I Once Loved Who Once Loved Me [1]

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Date: 2023-05-15  

Vestige of Someone I Once Loved Who Once Loved Me

Hey

I went to Boston the other day

and lingered at the spot I last bumped into you

there by the Rose Garden in the Fens

so many years ago

you told me you were doing contracting

now

had hired a whole bunch of Vietnamese

which of course I loved to hear and you knew that

you told me how resourceful they were

and of course I knew that

my having lived there in their country

for 13 months of another life

you were so proud to say you paid them well

gave them health insurance

you said you remembered things I'd talked to you about

a long time before when you were so young

and I was older

about loving people and shit

about loving first what is free

because free cannot be taken

from you

people liking so much taking

about loving the woods trees

silhouetted leaves in the sky

and the moment you are in

lying in the grass in the sunshine

by the lakeside

or walking together there

sharing our gift

of this moment

making it ours

you said you were with someone now

older of course

like me

whom you loved

and you said laughing how you loved to

no need to remind me

I know what you love

my being an aficionado of that myself

I went to Boston the other day

and lingered there where we last bumped

remembering the first time we met

after our eyes had spoken

your eyes

your mouth your smile

your heart

the music of your voice

“Hi handsome kid” “Hi handsome man”

your body in my arms

your bareness tight against mine

me pulling your ass closer

the days we'd spent together

the nights

reading Leaves of Grass

between making love

remembering now what you were like

inside and outside

and trying to grasp a vestige

of the last time we spoke when

when wisp

wisp

the vestige was there

an invisible swirling wisp

about me

brushed my cheek

caressed my heart

my expression lightened

my insides smiled

as I told myself I must go back there

another day

and look for you

or hope again for a vestige

of the last time we bumped

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