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Couple Viewed From a Train Window
Dark in his beige armchair
Pale on her dark rocker
A man and a woman
Silhouetted in the gathering dusk
Silence brooding between them
Indistinct from flickering carriage
Memories from other similar scenes
Play out on an internal screen
Fill in the gaps behind the view
Years of toil and bitterness
Childless years
Outline distances unbridgeable
Barrenness of their iron covenant
Etched into separate loneliness
Here on autumn’s porch
Back to back
A man and a woman
The negative space between them
Burns into the retina
Leaving an optical illusion
Of closeness
Fading as night replaces day
© Johnmichael Simon
2012
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