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Because I loved you, I thought I could peel whole pages 
off the calendar and burn your name into all the flesh 
of coming seasons and yet not be touched by it, 
and that you would leave a light shining when you came. 
 
Once again I become your servant, nursemaid, protector; 
see you expecting and inviting, not lying on formica: white 
and all alone; then me still waiting for a miracle to set us free. 
 
How we had eloped into that solitude, at first; how we 
had forgotten everything short life had taught us: that god 
keeps a running sword well heated; how we began 
long ago, it seems, living this nostalgia. 
 
When you prey on me to let all of you out and yet leave 
the moans behind me, I hear one scream, grow as loud 
as a stumper's sermon on repeal, or an apostle's speech 
on what's not allowed, or the doctor's precise whispered view 
on all the last things we're not supposed to feel: 
 
  like hope or the hands that knot the shroud. 

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John Mundt is a poet and writer living in New York City.  Previously published work has appeared in The New York Quarterly, Euphony, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Ink, SNReview, Art & Understanding, The Pebble Lake, Change, Diagram and The Pedestal.  He has a degree in journalism from St. Bonaventure University and a masters in media from New York University.



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