Remembrance
once
in a little while
from cloud-darkened brows
burst the sunshine of your smile,
warming my bones,
rain-drenched as they are.
spear my heart
with slivers of your smile.
charge me with the electrifying frankness
of your eyes,
and i will go down
to the ends of the earth
for you.
when all else
is gone
into numbing, hollow sadness
such as wrought by distance,
indifference,
or forgetting,
only the trace of your smile
remains,
bringing warmth and light
like a radiant morning,
greeting a still-sleeping world
and a bright new day.
(4/11/1986)
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