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  • Let’s Very Often Say
  • Millicent Borges Accardi

If and when and I am not sure.Let’s say I don’t know and it isA strong grey area, in the middleOf what I am imagining that I cannotWork out, not even if I bit into an appleOr sucked air into my lungs. It is never-Ending and sudden, but lasts for years.“One must have a mind of winter,”For the hold on wait on the phone,For the ambulance to come, the intermittentwarping of feeling upset and thenrelieved only the relief part nevershows up. It is as if you are waitingon the crest of a flower in waterclosed up with a mere promiseof a flourishing bloom, a time whenlife opens up into a vast bouquetof hopefulness and you sigh, deepinside the air of what is meant tobe. And a cello is playing wherean arrow floats immediately rightto its mark, on target and sticksit home, straight to the heart ofthe matter in a place where weregenerate and say hold andstop and just, please, keep me in mind. [End Page 104]

Millicent Borges Accardi
Topanga, California
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