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the charles*
as one
tripping-led to watch the moon
rip apart in wave’s reflection
silhouette tattered explains
pollution and undoing
imagine swallowing each droplet
to regurgitate it pure
a mother bird
an infant—the world—
as away
Friend says place to conjure place
over the phone Friend says orange line
remembering a bridge
they would not step onto—she did—
waiting beneath they wanted to scream
Friend said train’s motion was too slow
to counter strength of sound—
slow so they never bellowed—
carved banks—symbolic or—
as them, a float
Friend seen only
once on
an odd day
on the train
what mattered so—now
speak old versions of yourself
no one else remembers
a symbol defies defining
reacquainted in absence
as drift
when potential’s mania
converged metallic
Friend imagined in half
spheres
says monotony
swallows such longing
imagine pollution lapping up the throat