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11. At Full Height
If he don’t mean it, he won’t say it, and I can tell. If I don’t mean it, I won't say it, and his face fell. But it’s so seldom I believe it – it takes a clear kind of day. Like air so cold it hurts to...
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10. I Could Only Stand By
You could go for hours, months, and days, in that half-hearted, pinched kind of way. And you don’t get too often to the bruise-coloured lake, to stand, hands in your pockets. Sometimes you don’t see...
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9. Tapes
I found the little tapes you kept under your bed, and I played and played and played them, over and over again. Years ago, walking alone, you sang “Oh.” In your high strange voice, your feet scuffing...
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8. I Mined
It started small – a simple thought. That there was something wrong. And if it’s caught I could set it right, or at least, I could try. All through the night and down in your eyes, I mined and mined...
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7. Like Sisters
Some people say that we look like sisters, somehow, something in the eyes. And I’d say, “Well, you know I’m flattered,” and she’d say, “Yeah, right!” She’s always been so careful, nobody more faithful....
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6. Life's Work
I listened; I always did listen to you. Singing all the way through – your life’s work: passion, caution, timing. Try what you saw, and try what you knew, it was never always true. Your life’s work...
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5. Personal Eclipse
I remember the dry grass of Nebraska, grey to distant blue. I stopped on hills like slumping shoulders; car cooling, I took off my shoes. I drove out west with my sister – she talks more than I do....
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4. Shy Women
Shy women – you and I – shy, from knowing too well. Every time, as though it were mine, the bitterness that you hide so well. I say nothing at all, thinking of your pride. And I tell you that you look...
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3. Floodplain
All spring I was driving. Every river swollen with rain, every stream a torrent. Over the highway bridges that run high across the plains, flooded.“Half of the Maritimes,” they say, “is running this...
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2. Loyalty
Well you called me – telephone ringing in the night. And you asked me if I was alright – like an afterthought, an oversight. And I stood, so surprised, trying to hold on to my pride. So close, I could...
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1. Way It Is, Way It Could Be
You looked small in your coat, one hand up on the window, so long now you’d been lost in thought. No snow on the road – we’d been lucky, and it looked like we would be well past Orléans and past...
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