Burnt sugar spangles checker a green wall the morning I'm on an emergency call with my former therapist, who calls you my major adult relationship, & she is right. Of course it hurts, to lose that. There's her, and then there's everyone else, & it doesn't feel close, does it? We're in a strange place. I'd give anything I own to board the next flight from Dulles to Dublin & nestle into the crook of your arm over coffee & almonds. You put everything you had into this one... Instead I'm selling this condo so full of you that I can scarcely breathe, moving back downtown where the whitish blots dip back and forth, & waiting, waiting, for something to change, You just have to be patient until she is ready for one thing or the other. & then it's noon, & the call is over, & the bobbin of sun riffles back its little coins. One thing, or the other. Or the other.