Distance

You haunt my peripheral,

breathing in echoes.

I turn,

and reach;

Fingers grasp

at the horizon,

and then the 

Earth turns.

Pulling us away.

If I walk far enough,

I’ll see the ocean

that lay between

Us. 

You’re just beyond water’s edge;

Behind what I can see.

I can still hear you.

-James Kelley 2013, All rights reserved

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