Short distances 

Who can forgive

Apology ungiven 

Silently sleighted 

Inwardly simmering.


Both in the quiet living room

Like a place of gloomy piety

Miles millions between us loom

Bed like a tomb, inch two.


Between us, marooned

In my own life, lost island

Stirring thereby neither skyward pilot 

Nor privateer, galley rammed with rifles.


Together by oath sewn

Seeing soon way’s err

Where we meld, one’s two

Carving out raw runes.

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