Monday, July 16, 2018

day FIVE HUNDRED and FORTY THREE

You came and found me in the night

Before recidivism
Before relapse
Before dawn
Before the alarm clock blare
Before the real world
Before work

I wrote you
A book

I carved your secret
Initials in the soft wood frame
Around the bathroom door

Around being a word I won at
Sleep-Over Camp

We played
UNO on the couch and watched
Harold & Maude

I hummed 'When Doves Cry'

Nightingales
Moonwalked past the window
Chasing shadow boxers

I dreamed of winning
You kept shuffling and hiding
All the good cards in the cushions

Telling stories of snapping beach
Towels

Laughing and picnics in the breeze

--Paul Koniecki

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