Mary Ann Samyn
Tilde
for G.
Little body, swell—,
can I borrow you,
can I make the shape?
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—like that one, lying down
(like you, he says,
pointing—)
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Sometimes he’s quiet as painting I have loved:
soft grids of white on white—
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As I suspected, the diacritical mark
indicates special value.
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—some of his were jaunty,
like the stick we cleaned for marshmallows;
some, serpentine,
like the wall around the convent—
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Of course the quick jab bad distance
was contained there too and unavoidable.
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—but when he used his riverbed voice,
I agreed to walk along . . .
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Dear between, hesitation,
are you light?
(I’m feeling my way—)
are you fine?
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Mostly, that after the white space, we would begin—
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