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Sanding Picnic Tables (Transient Love)
May 26, 2013
carving beautiful
into this wood
where people have breathed
lived and loved...
to sand that all away
would wash away visceral
emotion and erase
the angels alive in their blood
to sand it all away would
be to never feel the rush of the
wind against those tears
after she didn’t marry him after all
he’s here, after so many years
when I’ve come to sand these
tables where they breathed
laughed
loved
he can’t bare to see
that carved beauty
disappear
forever
© Philip L., Westminster, SC
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