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Verona

February 26, 2012 by Kenneth Hart

Verona

Out the North window

tops of trees emerge from a mist

The fog is drawing away

First a fullness, then a line,

Detail and blending

 

Bending like a taken path

Leading my eyes

Impatient with the haze

Curling northward towards the stars and the night

 

The steamed windows to the East cloud a view of the sea

Slapping against old wood and hoisted nets

 

To the West lies the land

To the South the past

 

At the navel

Knotted and constantly washed

We sit incongruously leaning

and turning

Covering each other daily

We speak of our distractions, confusions, and needs

Half in their own submerged world

Jerked squirming to the deck

Sporadic

 

“What do you see?” she asks.

Curling her parted thighs beneath her

 

A smile spreads like a breeze on her face

Her freckles pop out like the sun

“My body feels like a post

Almost covered in sand.”

She says, “Talk to me specifically.”

“My body is hot wood and sand.”

 

She says, “If we buy a dog, will you teach her to love me?”

“What would you teach her to do to me?”

 

I think about her feet and her toes begin to twitch.

There is a sense of advantage that could lead to betrayal

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