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One Thousand Evenings More

by Ingrid Goff-Maidoff

 

 What if we had
one thousand evenings more
to step into
like a small boat
waiting at the dock,
or a blank page
and the most exquisite pen in hand
to write the sun dipping hot flames
into the western sea,
the moon and stars rising,
and not have such words sound empty
like the straws on the broom as it sweeps
those last remnants of life
from the room we'll leave behind.
And what if we had
one thousand evenings more
to walk in the woods,
to share a glass of wine,
to ask our friends
from where their happiness comes…
…to reinvent ourselves as lovers,
forgetting all we've learned,
even all that we've forgotten?

 

 

FROM THE CHAPBOOK, CALLING FORTH THE RICHES

 

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