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down the hall
in the yard
a paperback rested against your leg
and in it was a note
left a few times
replaced and displaced and replaced
once more
a list of all the blizzards
our city suffered
the heatwaves too
and the floods that brought us
closer together when our faults
piled up
when we thought of lying down
and would ask when it was wonderful
a reminder
circled and in your small writing
“all the time”