Lori Gates Poems

It came in a passing moment in a thought that placed you near which turned me from my task at hand and transfixed my glance to stare.
In an instant my mind has parted from paying attention to it's chore of a once familiar feeling of a love I'd known before.
Then as quickly as it came and as real as it had seemed, the present drifted from the past and lapsed out of it's dream.
There was no telling how long a pause it had probably been, from when I stood tuning out, until I tuned back in.
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