Gaps
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I like this but I think that some of it might be a bit redundant.

(08-06-2025, 08:14 AM)tmanzano Wrote:  I thought I heard your voice
passing through the gaps in the fence
when the wind kicked up again

It is always you I  I would lose this as the "you" is already implied

Today has been opening jars of pennies
stubs of things we did
napkins with your love notes

When I sat down last night
slowly falling into the couch
a glimpse, heart skip
almost caught you in my today

I don’t know where you are
or who we have become I don't think this part really works here.

Organizing drawers, in every corner
there are pieces of us
latent fingerprints, evidence
we saw our endless selves in

I miss you
I miss us

the us
that lives
and breathes
of what we were

our winds
kicking up again
singing our names
to our kids

between gaps
we see
forever in

Drastic I know, but I would lose, or at least re-write, all of this, as I don't think it adds anything to the poem. Maybe take the "I don’t know where you are
or who we have become" sentiment to make a better ending?
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Gaps - by tmanzano - 08-06-2025, 08:14 AM
RE: Gaps - by JamesG - 08-06-2025, 08:58 PM
RE: Gaps - by rowens - 08-16-2025, 05:33 AM



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