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Women Becoming Poems:
Francine Friedman

                 

The Night Watch

The darkest hour is yet to come.
You've been asleep;

the omission of time
is your luxury.
I stay awake.
Listen to you breathe sometimes.
Breathing.
It's what I hope you'll do.
I never know
if you will stop
like the end of a sentence.

Seven seconds. Eight.
A breath!
I can release mine, now.
Relax a little,
Wait for the next breath
So I can know
we are both alive.


October, 1999

Copyright © 2000 Francine Friedman.

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