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Today's poem is by Hannah Dow

What to Make of the Shape of Your Body in the Bed
       

—its obsolescence the kind that sheds
its leaves come fall, loses what warmth

it should be gaining. A little like the way
I say your name each morning,

a ritual I wish into prayer, wish into
your wristwatch's easy wandering—

yet feel its indifference move
from hand to hand like winter's

repetition, impossible to hold.



Copyright © 2018 Hannah Dow All rights reserved
from Rosarium
Acre Books
Reprinted by Verse Daily® with permission

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