The flatness of the earth beneath our feet
all of a sudden, the wind left behind
in the trees, in between the fingers;
and an afternoon monochrome light
which pushes the blind mind ahead of time.
In all this land
dream is lost like unending railway tracks.
How true that these hands appear
to meet again after months, like two strangers!
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