Joshua Aube Poems

(to V)

I guess I know why spring makes me sad
I guess I know why I grow a beard every spring
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(to C)

Bit by bit I lose you
And every time it brims over,
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this grudge is an infatuation,
i am not in love with grudge
it comes as a dark maroon devil
between my lungs - arresting them numb
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(to C)

Dear, how long this despair?
This despair that seeps into every bone
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(to C)

I did not know, love could be war
I did not know we would have to walk alleys so dark
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From the empty room,
Through the silent window curtains,
The evening's light seeps out into the dusk.
And the erhu stops its song.
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After a long holiday, you take the train
At five past five.
The green fields turn brown and the sparrows feed
In pairs.
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(to V)

A sun will shine softly between the autumn mist
And a pond heron will come for his breakfast fish.
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