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You can't write poetry on the computer.

                                                    - Quentin Tarantino

POEM OF THE WEEK

 

Long Night


Rising from the bed,
habit turns on the water
in the white tub sink

and you wash
your slender hands.
You stop, looking
at them in the light.

Quickly you dry them,
hoping not too much scent
is gone. You do not
think that I have seen you.
 


© Gary Charles Wilkens 2008

 

 

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