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Unlove

by

Stan Howes


Perhaps if I had unsaid

the said

or said the unsaid

brought gifts or denied them,

hadn’t touched her thigh

or kissed her before lunch.

Perhaps the letter would

have been better unwritten,

unsigned, unsent

and the scent unscattered

among

the commonplaces of emotion

the tales of emotion have filled

and spilled in the spuming

streams.

So we walk unbroken,

unpassioned

days in the mirrors of windows,

unsaid, unsent, unscattered,

until.






------
Stan Howes


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The following comments are for "Unlove"
by stan

Unlove
There is something very impressive in this about that confusion of regret at a relationship that fails to meet its potential. Conveying all of that in such spare language almost echoes the silences of times like these.

( Posted by: Sebastian08 [Member] On: April 21, 2008 )

Un-
I love the adaptability of the english language! The black and white of the past and the hypothetical... really spins you round and round. Lovely.

( Posted by: DameSansMerci [Member] On: April 21, 2008 )





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