coming back to where you first met
Agony
and her brother, her even (meaner and) more beautiful brother
after a spell of the freshest forgetting
and rising early for a run, and eating raw almonds and practicing yoga
and being by yourself not-as-suffering

Oh.

You are all toothy smiles and dark curls and
“I’ve had a wonderful time”
and you are telling the truth
but you believe that you are lying

And.

Agony’s brother went home to the West; Agony misses him so she stays indoors.

But she shows up every so often

for a cup of sugar or
yesterday’s party