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forget me the season
now given to memory
much more than I keep
lest I touch to the flame
and run with my body on fire

stir not to ember
the last of those kisses
but to cool
even now
I can’t speak of them here

or recall to becoming
the light pouring in
were we ever not here
in this place of forgiveness
had I known
(did I know) all along

the past would not pass
without us to leave it
and who would be fooled
would be cheated
by such

as stays now
the secrets of living undone
by the one I thought not
in the going unto
and a place far enough
from the one I lay down

as names given more
to the moon
did I know (couldn’t know)
of the sweetest embrace
and hands (made to one)
would not do

already my faith
to be worried (away)
as a time not so long
in the space of a breath
much more letting go
scarlet threads
(wear me knot)

are forever
reweaving
forget me no more
as breath (once returned)
to your soul