Night Mind

Come evening
she thinks of me, waits
moth-like in porch light.

See her
brush the air
inexpertly—a breeze
that lifts my hair
carries her
past the tops of trees,
past any future
I can read,
where only those
who steer by the moon
alone can go.

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