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Fragmented

THE BALTIMORE SUN

I can't finish a thought

or put a line together

in writing

With pounding urgency

the night of your days

collides into the dreams

of my night

And I, who love you,

am left at loose ends

of the sentence

Searching in all the

wrong places

for all the right

punctuation

to put its meaning back.

You interrupt

the rhythm of my soul's

composing

but no dictionary helps me now.

Your life is a question

I can't answer.

Linda Marie Flaherty writes from Baltimore.

jTC

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