Spotted Dog Poems

I know these autumn days are the ones you loved,
Golds and reds and browns,
Sunlight gilding the leaves for a fleeting moment.
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Stand there, on that starting line
Shivery, slick with sweat, legs wound tight like springs
A thundering shot echoes,
Stolen steps, a slight shove, a steely resolve:
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School, clocks, papers, forms, money, competition:
we aren't meant to be this way, can't we see?
Let it go.
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The rain was warm,
soaking through the seams of your old jacket
that I was wearing.
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As I run this road today, I feel:

Bone, muscle, blood, mind
All working as one.
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It was by chance we met
on that ship to Patras.
Myself, I was drunk with travel,
a boy of seventeen with the wide world before him.
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