As I eat my chili with a plastic spoon
As the Amtrak passes by
And wood smoke blows around me, imprinting my clothes
I listen to this s o u n d
Sometimes I hear it; other times I don't
It makes me think of you,
how you mixed your saliva with it
just half a year ago
You once looked out at the horizon, surfboard under your arm
buoyant with hope
As the sound slams towards me,
you are here
Your warm body in the cold ocean
And as the sound hushes flat,
you ebb away
carried out to the eely blackness
the length of time you will be gone: eternity
I miss you with every pump of my heart
A heart which had so intimately wrapped around you
I call for you
Your name hangs and hangs but doesn't land
I'm only answered by the sand
thrown down by gravity in a lusty detonation
Your absence leaves the world so barren
My ears are hoarse
and filled with fog
I can't hear you calling back to me
We once ate chili together
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