let me say it again, and then
again softly, so only
you can hear me,
a lover late at night
whispering her desires,
until you believe it’s true
this time—
because somewhere
you can’t remember,
you heard someone,
perhaps me,
say the very thing
that you hear now
but it coheres,
this time,
to what you’ve heard,
like spiders dropping
one soft strand to another,
so I whisper again
into your ear
through the dark
tonight
(December 26, 2021)
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