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Downward and downward

as if a prayer for words that holds open the door

to a dreamscape with you in an orange grove above the sea

and once a mountain covered in snow . . .

You found comfort at the entrance to a covered bridge . . .

Odysseyites provide blankets . . . at times a postcard . . .

Each day the stone steps of the climb

to a hillside town with costumed go-betweens

reciting lines long lost carry you . . .

I would have preferred collecting paper cuts

but you insisted . . . then everything changed and we were left

with a set of hieroglyphs for reassembling life

suited to the colorways that were chosen

by drivebys on their way out with diminishing returns . . .

Alina Lebedeva