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List: things occupying space in head, four-thirty-three p.m. :

morning is set at fifty degrees

after breakfast man with french accent shows off his scooter

open all the windows

widows due to lost-at-sea husbands, coastal maine

widow's walk

heavy pages of i.d. magazine

main st. at dusk

arrive early and the restaurant to yourself

Lights pushing windows out towards the darkness.

winter coats, still

soon: doors propped open

bare shoulders

somewhere in michigan

afternoon off

longing for: foreign currency

beaches that run the length of Portugal.

Italy.

put me in a hammock and kiss my forehead.

play games with tennis racquets

and small wooden squares imprinted with letters

notebooks &

scribble arrows in the margins

let me turn the radio dial

sleep outside & bare feet stained green due to running yards of g r a s s

eyelashes left on pillows

fall asleep with his gray t-shirt

back stroke

every sentence stated for the record

make you want it, too.

hell of a view, i dare say. i dare. i say.

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