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Came with broken hearts
came from all points of the compass rose
or compass star
5×5
6×6
7×7
Came to a bridge.
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Crossed the bridge
into the city
Held each other
upon the bridge
Kissed
with the city all before them
Took their picture.
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Coming from wherever
this foreign couple
Tourists or immigrants
with hardly any English
Hardly any experience
but a walk upon the bridge
2 or 3×1.
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Nothing climactic
but a casual promise
in all its power
A stroll across the bridge
some years hence
5×2
2×1.
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Or to see myself writing
a book in a room
On an island where I lived once
as an innocent child
On an island where I never
lost my innocence
1×1 or 1×2.
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So that I come
into a strange company:
“more to me,
and more in my meditations,
than you might suppose.”
Giving or taking up
all of the names.
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Weeping for sorrow
weeping for joy
There on the bridge
camera in hand
There in a room
I will never see?
Namaste Hineni