Plej

Kings of Convenience

Röyksopp

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For my husband

The Japanese maple
Our house leaning into the next
The photo of you on this wall
Rake over shoulder
Your back to apple trees and pond
And me taking the picture
As you walked away

How much longer
Can you last without water
Fig trees sparse

The desert you walked to without me
Leaving me this swollen field, half creek
The plague, the sun, everything
so ripe

-- Martha Rhodes