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FAR AND WIDE
To see you again
I find a place on AirBnB
in Gröningen’s flat country beneath the North Sea.
You go to lectures. I stay in —
read, write poems. Reach far and wide. Do yoga of the mind. Ancient - new. Beings and things. In Vermeer light
I doodle questions.
You visit after dark.
At the dinner table you say,
“Even if dairy cows escape slaughter, they are separated from their calves.” Then you solve Maths problems.
In wakeful dream, I hear you leave. Into night’s frozen arms at 3 am.
We wait for your dad to arrive
on that surprise ticket I schemed
for pre-Christmas with our daughter,
mid-term while rent is cheap. You tell me