My last five posts of 2020 are reruns of five of the most viewed posts on this site during the year.
When Shadows Hide
I breathe when you breathe,
and watching me,
you capture each lost molecule.
This book blinks whenever you turn the page.
I see you between the words, between the white threads.
You are the adored chapter, the one I read in bed before
sleep, and after I wake, before the first wren announces
dawn, then in the afternoon’s highest point, when shadows hide,
and later, as they emerge to stroke your bare shoulder.
What’s on the other side, you ask. What do you hear?
Your breath, I say. Your name.
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“When Shadows Hide” was first published in the print anthology Epiphanies and Late Realizations of Love in February 2019.
O at the Edges 
Love, love, love this, Bob! Somehow I missed reading it along the way – it makes the reader want to be the you in the poem, “the adored chapter”, a radiance by poem’s end that lights many other candles.
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Thanks, Lynne. I’m glad you found it! The candles in my life are blazing away. I am so very lucky.
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You both are! I get happy just thinking of you two.
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Lovely lovely. And I’m glad to hear that your candles are blazing. I agree with Lynne and the wanting to be this kind of source of radiance for someone besides the dog, LOL…..
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Thanks, Jilanne. The radiance is something I never dreamed was possible. Dogs and cats are wonderful, but…
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