Loving Backwards
Raindrops like the keys fall upwards from grass
Time drags back to the pattering of song
You reappear at our old piano
Backwards melodies played on your body
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Atoms draw me back out into cold night
Dragging my body up broken flight –
Falling upwards, I am without heartbeat,
The fractured grace of willow bones reset
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Red paint retract from the shady grass
The boat is floating back to the morning
All my memories are going backwards.
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Comets recollect themselves above clouds
Thunder returns to roost in electric nests,
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We were together, I forget the rest.
