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finding
your letter left out
in the rain . . .
if not for that small remorse
I might have forgotten you
the day I left
that grandfather clock
you never repaired
rang once, or so
I imagined
just when I think
I have forgotten you
I open my mouth to sing
and out comes
your voice
how long has it been
since we parted?
the snow has come
and I'm learning from geese
how to fall from the sky
lingering
at the shop window—
even at this age
I contemplate a tattoo
only a lover would see
All poems from The Pleiades at Dawn (Edina, Minnesota, Lone Egret Press, 2007).
Poetry Copyright © 2007 by Jeanne Emrich.
Jeanne Emrich reads five tanka from her book, The Pleiades at Dawn (Lone Egret Press, 2007).