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the world seems so much brighter now that i’ve found frank o’hara
how could i not know about him? especially after all those poetry classes in college
i am amazed at his simplicity and his complexity both at the same time
and find myself baffled or touched or overwhelmed by what he says
and the way he says it
and however i feel about it i’m usually weeping by the time i get to the end

then i get up to poke at the fire i built tonight
i think just to prove to myself that i could do it
i used the kindling you cut from the cedar bushes in front of the house

in the bottom of the woodbox was the thick white string you had wrapped and tied
around the branch that split, trying to graft it.
at the time you said
“we just need to remember in a year to pull this off”
but a year never came and the graft didn’t work anyway
and i resist the urge to use that as an analogy

i left the string in the box
and watched the kindling go up in smoke
and again i resist the urge to use that as an analogy.

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