I let down the hem of the wide-legged jeans, ripping
the narrow seam thread by thread. Unfolded,
the white crease revealed their age. Heat and steam
made it more pronounced. I ironed it permanent
instead of out, blue marker the last indelible mistake.
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I unstitch action from actor, dismantle memories’ timeline,
embellish with treasured beads idly trifling my fingers,
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Waiting to board for Cádiz, in the slate gray Sevilla Santa Justa lobby,
I am surprised to recognize where I am. I have been here before.
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Some summer mornings I resist the invitation to greet the day
on the page, murmur excuses within the crowded clamor – too cold,
too gray, too late – then the seagull flies overhead, mouth dangling
dark matter extracted from a neighbor’s gutter, to the nest I cannot see
but must be close.
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A building has at least two lives – the one imagined by its maker
and the life it lives afterward – and they are never the same.
– Rem Koolhaas
Some never knew of the secret stair, smooth, cool
caracol of white cantera, winding out of sight
complicit in the house built in another era
for people who carried other burdens in and out
the front door, supplies and groceries
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