We didn’t fall out of love,
old love, we rose—we rose
as in a plane, as in the moment
when the wheels lift
and the whole craft
shudders against the gravity
it then forgets as
all at once the runway’s
fretful rushing by the window
slows and resolves to field
and tree line, the beaten
metal of a pond
the sun anneals;
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