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at the bookstore
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standing under the canvas awning between the sidewalk sale and used book tables waiting for the july monsoon to dissipate in your town three thousand miles from mine inside small talk with the old friend I was visiting then and trying not to stare at you taking easy glimpses at the geography of your face among words since we spoke a decade before part of my heart wanted to smile and speak and hug the moment instead of being a voyeur to my own sweet impulses |
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Janet Cannon |
