Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Strangers

I could be one of the lit windows
in your neighborhood.

Late night, when you
listened to the noisy city streets

tentatively searching
for a familiar soul,

I would watch your silhouette
framed on the side of a building

long enough to invent a story
which explained your presence

and hope we could meet again
in sleeplessness.


(To the stranger who's been watching my exercise on existing closely for long hours this week)

2 comments:

  1. Love the possibilities, the images.

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  2. You have written so engagingly of the tentative relationship between strangers... there is the sense of isolation and the sense of reaching out. No one wants to be alone.

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