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Love from, (Sestina) by thetrev
On my wall I pinned
the postcards you sent me from
Malta, Ibiza, Gomera, Greece,⦠my fingers
jumped from pools of fluorescent water
to cats haunting
crusty archways. I used to pine
at your absence â an idea â as I fingered
those battered papers haunting
my wall. Each image is a face watered
down by time. The stamps are smiling from
their contained box though my fingers
scratched their upturned corners from
the card till I had your location unpinned.
Once, you gave me Madrid: a water
fountain, but I sent its crumbs to haunt
the wind. Your signature varied from
âyour fatherâ to âJoelâ and my haunt
would always be wrong: youâd pin
it as a boulevard rather than a street (or water
it down to a path). But eventually, my fingers
chased those scattered scraps pinned
against bins, imprinted, or sailing watery
grass. I rescued my wronged address from
the pond and the litter manâs fingers,
though your signature is still out there, haunting.
My fingers stopped trying to pin you down,
you sent no more hauntings from over the water.
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