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The neighbor’s dog barks three times.
As I stand beneath your bedroom window
To cradle your sneakered feet with both my hands,
You steady yourself against the house
And jump d
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We silently walk to the waiting parked car.
In moonlit mid-October Fall,
Tremors form around my heart,
Cleft with the blind bow-boy’s butt shaft.
An elephant steps on my chest as I wrest,
The question relentless and desperate.
You tell the truth,
Then we both cry,
And I,
Have never been so confused
Or ever so deeply
In love with you.