אחרי הכל

after waking
after desiring you a Tad
after running to jaffa port & back smiling
many times with the generous success of a poorly
trained long distance runner
after I saw you sleeping & slipped into cold
garments of mourning At first curled into
a comma well it didn’t seem too
ludicrous for me to be back on this milk crate
49 days into the Ugly Nasty Ugly war
after it was the bomb that woke me at 5am
after we desired only absence in our ears
after waking

Blossom Hibbert

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