I accidentally reversed one,
& then when I posted them,
I was startled by a mirror image
heart made of granite and snow.
So that's why his smile looked all wrong
in the photo, because it was reversed.
A stranger was grimacing at me.
Maybe if I had seen the flip side, then,
I might have saved myself some grief.
I literally scaled mountain peaks—
even the heights of Machu Picchu with that man—
it was a short, fierce relationship,
lasting only a few years,
but it came with a lifetime sentence.
Sometimes the sentence is all there is:
all verb & noun. The temporalness of snow
and the endurance of granite.
8/13/19 & 9/11/19
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