Once again I was with you.
The world, if it was calling,
Had gone unheard in the depth of sleep.
But now I was awake
And I thought to close the distance between us
By coming to your side.
There you met me with a stiff arm braced
Across my chest and a renewed demand
That I bind myself to the cold beyond your door,
Opening even as you spoke.November 2016
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