already there
For Dorie Snow/雪多丽
— where it already was.
there are hours
that don’t arrive
they continue
as if something
has been moving
long before you sat down
the room
already holding
what you brought with you
the air held
leather and oil
I watched the sun arrive,
yet the ink had hardly dried
the pages felt warm tonight
as if the light of the words
had never left
pages resting
as they had been
it arrives
before the rest
one line
hasn’t cooled
the breath,
already… there
the room holding me close
my body already knew
not forced
just…
not allowed to leave
my shoulders loosen
and still everything
meeting me here
the page stayed warm
longer than it should haveㅤ
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Another masterpiece, this is what I mean when I say poetry!
She is so wonderful—just like this poem. Truly well deserved. You can really feel something in those words.