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what the arms could not hold

We did not always feel such insistent tugging

on the sleeve and so we did not remember

to cherish time until the moment had passed,

the memory marooned,

its breath grown short within

the parentheses of its existence.

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alexandra-carlyle

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Published: Apr 30, 2011
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