Anniversary

Climbing into one side of the narrow bed,
stretching out beside you
--we lay together in the cool morning
of the hospital room—
Dawn crawling over the parking lot outside,
light remembering itself in the room,
and you  turned,
speaking from withdrawals of sleep, 
“Fifty years just isn’t enough.”
06/05/’18
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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June 29, 2018 at 8:59 PM
Jack, nice Anniversary write!
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