3,000+

3,000+ miles after

our last goodbye

pressed against ceiling

atop carefully packed boxes

atop tired chassis

cloudy, snowy daylight beyond

Syracuse U. service roads

parked opposite small Jewish hillside graveyard

privacy vinyl Velcroed around windows

our skin tears them off, good enough

to get close enough to celebrate

warm bodies, semi-naked, horizontal

lives imitating deaths

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G.A.Mackenzie

10 - III - 2003