The sun-warmed snow clunking its way down cedar trees while I snowshoed.
Silence.
“Only then did she realize that she had slept a long time without dying, sobbing in her sleep, and that while she slept, sobbing, she had thought more about Florentino Ariza than about her dead husband.”2
A picture of you holding a picture of me
In the pocket of my blue jeans3
I felt a suddenness
I felt a suddenness
The day fell completely still
The dream was a lot like this4
Old laughter made new with my dear friend Dara.
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1 my little neighbor, Molly.
2 from Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3 from the song “Jolene” by Ray Lamontagne
4 from the song “He Came to Meet Me” by Hem
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