DOUGLAS BALMAIN
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Moving

Move before the walls tighten,
go before you’re asked to leave.
Breathe in that old t-shirt one last time,
the one that still holds a faint 
remembrance of a past lover’s scent.
Say your Pagan prayer 
as you lay it down over
the yellow burn of split pine
and watch your spirits
dance to one more song — 
twisting and flowing up the flue,
whispering their final, dissipating 
goodbyes before joining the 
ocean that waits to greet them
beyond the stack’s order.

Goodbye my lover.
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© Douglas Balmain. 2020.
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