Benighted

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I drive by

offering-spheres of streetlight,
sparse-sensual, shivering,
ragged-night-dressed,
vulnerable, whispering,

'I still love you.'

I stop and take
my laptop
from the boot.

Gibbous moon
by golden-oak.

A boy peers out
of lighted windows,
nose to glass,
puzzling what keeps me
standing in the dark.
....



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