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+title: 'And'
+project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves'
+epigraph: |
+"What is your favorite word?"
+"And. It is so hopeful."
+...
+
+And you were there in the start of it all \
+and you folded your hands like little doves \
+that would fly away like an afterthought \
+and you turned to me the window light on your face \
+and you asked me something that I did not recognize \
+like a great throng of people who are not you \
+and I asked are we in a church \
+and you answered with the look on your face \
+of someone grieving something gone for years \
+ but that they had been reminded of \
+by a catch in the light or in someone's voice \
+and I think maybe it could have been mine \
+and I looked away thickly my head was in jelly \
+and I didn't get an answer from you but I got one
+
+I looked at the man in front of us with glasses \
+he was speaking and holding a book \
+and I didn't understand him he was far away \
+and I could tell I was missing something important \
+and you nodded to yourself at something he said