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2title: And
3genre: verse
4
5epigraph:
6 content: |
7 "What is your favorite word?"
8
9 "And. It is so hopeful."
10 attrib: Margaret Atwood
11 link: 'http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/oct/28/margaret-atwood-q-a'
12
13project:
14 title: Elegies for alternate selves
15 css: elegies
16 order: 3
17 next:
18 - title: Words and meaning
19 link: words-meaning
20 prev:
21 - title: How to read this
22 link: howtoread
23...
24
25And you were there in the start of it all \
26and you folded your [hands like little doves][] \
27that would fly away like an afterthought \
28and you turned to me the window light on your face \
29and you asked me something that I did not recognize \
30like a great throng of people who are not you \
31and I asked are we in a [church][] \
32and you answered with the look on your face \
33of someone [grieving something gone][] for years \
34 but that they had been reminded of \
35by a catch in the light or in someone's voice \
36and I think maybe it could have been mine \
37and I looked away thickly my head was in jelly \
38and I didn't get an answer from you but I got one
39
40I looked at the man in front of us with glasses \
41he was speaking and holding a book \
42and I didn't understand him he was far away \
43and I could tell I was missing something important \
44and you nodded to yourself at something he said
45
46[church]: boar.html
47[grieving something gone]: roughgloves.html
48[hands like little doves]: cold-wind.html