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    Girl in the a yellow dress

    I saw you yesterday in a yellow dress,
    the color of high dosage diazepam, through the
    rain streaked window of a familiar bar, as I walked by,
    somewhere in the city,
    and I could swear you saw me, then turned away -
    like that moment when a bird decides
    not to eat from your hand. I had not seen you since
    graduation, but I thought you should know this:

    I hit harder in schoolyard fights when
    you were watching (and you did watch!).
    I tackled harder in rugby matches when you
    were watching.
    I ran faster in races when you
    were watching.

    There is an August beach photograph of you and me,
    in our 19th year, tumbling hair, greedy as seagulls.
    Maybe you’ve just been all the wild in me.
    Some pictures don't come down easy from the wall.

    It's been years of small victories and large defeats and
    drinks poured, 3 cars, 2 dogs, expired drivers licenses,
    landlords, mortgages, and 15 Christmases.
    Are you happy as you thought you would be?

    I’m just lying here, writing you this email on
    these hard springs. So let’s meet at that bar, tomorrow. Yes?
    Don’t worry. All is well here,
    but
    there is Something Coming towards me
    across the floor. Oh, it’s just a rolling bottle of wine,
    this
    time.

    There is a place in me that is never filled.
    And this is where I am likely to be found.
    If you can find this Place - Do Come In
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    Glad you bumped that one up. I like it very much. Don´t you write poetry any more?
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
    Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row

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    Quote Originally Posted by Danik 2016 View Post
    Glad you bumped that one up. I like it very much. Don´t you write poetry any more?
    I do, not as much though. The ones i recently published didn't give me right to publish for a year. (and they do 'searches' - yea, mean aint it?)

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    I don´t understand. Do you have a publishing contract with someone?
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
    Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row

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    Quote Originally Posted by Danik 2016 View Post
    I don´t understand. Do you have a publishing contract with someone?
    yes, publishing with Ezines and poetry magazines i.e. I've been in a few on the very bottom of this list

    https://www.everywritersresource.com...20More%20items

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    I hope they at least pay you for it.
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
    Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row

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