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  2. With my mouth full of cherries, I hold up my hand against the sun, still so bright, it feels like one of those day that won't end.
  3. On the street, you pick cherries from branches that stretch out from someone's yard and drop one in your upturned shirt and one in my mouth
  4. I forgive you because it's me you've sketched out on the table. I laugh since either it's funny or I know we can't count on leaving soon.
  5. I work this part of you on the burned carpet with the yellow flystuck curl of paper over us, when, finally, I stop and you ice my shoulder.
  6. Getting back in the car, you say, Let's go. The man's not moving, but his eyes watch us. Ahead, the hot air hugs the highway like syrup.
  7. I keep the car running as you talk to the man, who waves back at his truck's gleaming grill. You look down the black top. He grips his iron.
  8. The man's worksuit is whipped tight by the wind, but he's not giving signs of distress. in 112 degrees I'm not wanting to read any into it.
  9. A man's on the road's shoulder, along which runs a jagged crack like a scar. In a white gloved hand he holds an iron. His truck's far back.
  10. You're hat's in the grass and a girl's pulled by a man into the back of a car. Your eye is black. I bend over, you say you didn't touch her.
  11. I take your preoccupation as permit to walk, though it's dark and my cigarette smoke's even hidden until oncoming headlights illuminate it.
  12. It's a fire, and all I can see by the hood is your hat's sharp rim sticking out of the smoke. I let my foot hang out the half-opened door.
  13. I am also drawn to the girl at the gate, her bare ankles crossed, because her head hangs like she knows more than she should.
  14. Walking away, you don't observe yourself. You lack curiosity in the observation of yourself, and lack, even, an awareness of that absence.
  15. What? You say. Now you don't want to talk? You say "sorry for leaving, I was mad," but your voice is wood and wind.
  16. I'm in mid-sentence when you walk away from the wood and wire swing into the dark. Finally, I'm fine and it's a fine night, warm and fine.
  17. It's not the gapped walls but the coat hanging in the closet companioned only by empty hangers that makes me put down my hand and hurry out.
  18. You're fingering the paper fallen like white chocolate shavings from the wall. Lately, we walk from room to room over large chunks of wall.
  19. A wire hanger snaps up around my ankle as you reach for a door. There's no need to close a door here. There isn't even a door here to close.
  20. You're upset that I push the shoulders down on my turquoise blouse. But I want to eat Mexican. My hair is rosed like Rembrandt's Saskia.