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    This poem describes two memories that the author has of being intimate with Kathryn that are decades apart. The first memory is from April 23, 1971 in Belleville where the author wakes up next to Kathryn and they have unplanned and passionate sex. The second memory is from December 11, 2007 where the author wakes from a dream of Kathryn and the memory arouses them. Though decades have passed, the author finds comfort in these warm memories of Kathryn.

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    This poem describes two memories that the author has of being intimate with Kathryn that are decades apart. The first memory is from April 23, 1971 in Belleville where the author wakes up next to Kathryn and they have unplanned and passionate sex. The second memory is from December 11, 2007 where the author wakes from a dream of Kathryn and the memory arouses them. Though decades have passed, the author finds comfort in these warm memories of Kathryn.

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    Decades A Part

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    Wally Keeler
    This poem describes two memories that the author has of being intimate with Kathryn that are decades apart. The first memory is from April 23, 1971 in Belleville where the author wakes up next to Kathryn and they have unplanned and passionate sex. The second memory is from December 11, 2007 where the author wakes from a dream of Kathryn and the memory arouses them. Though decades have passed, the author finds comfort in these warm memories of Kathryn.

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    DECADES A PART

    For Kathryn

    It’s 6:05 am, December 11, 2007


    There is fresh dna on the bedsheets
    I woke a half hour ago
    a memory of us
    drifted and dipped like a kite on waves of wind
    A kite tethered to my loins
    tugging me with the exuberance
    of startled birds exploding from a berry bush

    Remember this:
    in Belleville, April 23, 1971, circa 4:30am
    I woke beside you
    turned
    mounted
    plunged in
    to you
    just like that
    no preamble
    no warning
    no warming
    no moisture
    You were all silent
    surprised
    yielding
    yes

    I came in your embrace in 1971

    I came in your memory in 2007

    I lay in moist memory of you


    warm dampmess comforting me
    as soil slumbers seeds
    Sleep fled like an illicit lover with darkness
    and the morning sunrinse
    mused this poem to inform you
    how much I enjoyed you
    disturbing my sleep
    so many
    decades
    a part

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