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Elizabeth Jacobson

                 

The Unequivocal Private

Before the medicine cabinet
the halo of your eyes stare back at you,

the weight of the silk kimono,
of hand colored flowers.

Time is divided, in the way
that what you have done

is often better than what you are doing.
Places remembered as warmer, cooler, cleaner, friendlier

and there you were shining with no loss,
time extended before you with certainty.

Later in the kitchen, chile lights plugged in over the sink,
your tongue up and down on a knife that has spread honey

because it is what was,
your body opened with its seeds.

Unwavering in the glow cast from red-lit walls,
time extends before you with certain clarity.




Copyright © 1999 Elizabeth Jacobson.

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