A Love Poem For Every Day You Are Away
by T.E. Ballard


The rain falls
like a woman
and the sky
is not strong enough.

A fox sits at my window,
her yellow eyes;
a thousand mirrors
biting at glass.

Tonight we are
each of us
curling our own tails
waiting to be fed.






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