1984-04-10

Whenever I go away from her
I ache from the sudden emptiness
where someone was.
She’s a slowly growing storm
an echo of childhood friends
and a future memory…growing warm.
She touched me once…
sudden compression of feeling there
like acres of skin
beneath a momentary tear

gallagher
10 apr 84
Irvine, CA

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

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