Filing Cabinet

I am here where nights come and go
as they please and days neatly tuck
themselves in between forthcoming and swift.

 

I miss the sound of your nylons
mixed with hands and heat.

 

Heat, like that of a blinding sun
that gouges paint chips to the floor.

 

I am always here.

 

Ray Strickland jr. March 1998

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