Thursday, April 2, 2026

Years like horseflies July 19, 2015

 


If I knew you would be here soon, I would wait, even when I know you won’t be. I watch the summer rush by the way others have, and other will, and I push aside each day the way I might a house fly, a persistent nuisance I would abandon if I could. I cast aside years now as if they were days, or put them in a drawer the way the poet does mothballs, perverted for no good reason, each drawer overflowing with details and memories I cannot resurrected, each day, week, moth, passing as if a century, quickly and then, not at all, not quickly enough to eradicate the thoughts I had, and wished I hoped would come true, knowing you will not come soon or at all, but like a horsefly or butterfly, you hover just beyond my reach.

 


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