Carol Berge

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RomanticCarol Berge

To You as Balboa, Let Us Say...

Only the missing you pivots me. After the words. After you have gone naked to discover the Pacific and I have repaired my lips from their blood. Wishing you courage, congratulating you on it all bon voyage on your trip past Molokai It is your bone sockets how they rocked you over me Memory of the sea or Rilke's 'without a tongue, can conjure you at will' After the words after your offer to share the bed or
RomanticCarol Berge

Telephone Conversation

When we talk on the telephone, we feel our loss more heavily. i stare at the slits, the box that sells her voice to me. i hold the phone like a live thing, like part of her. it holds a sound i love. yet i hate the upright coffin, its pimply walls, the printed admonitions lining it, for being
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