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by kristen shaw
People are moving
and standing still
watching airplanes obstruct blue spaces
feeling sharp wind blow across their faces
resting one idle hand on a naked thigh
or stirring sugar into coffee,
looking out of windows.
"I think about what my wife is doing, somewhere.”
“I haven't met her yet."
Most things are as mundane as this,
two bodies
moving in different directions
and the politics or absence
of unanswered questions
all words copyright kristen shaw, 2009