Dennis Ryan Confidante Poems

Tuesday morning, February 13, 2024, begun at 7: 18 a.m.; completed at 8: 29 a.m.

'Now, though, the meadow scene is the first thing that comes back to me. The smell of the grass … And yet, as clear as the scene may be, no one is in it. No one. Naoko is not there, and neither am I … Naoko, and the self I was then, and the world I had then: where could they have gone? … I can't even bring back her face—not straight away, at least. All I'm left holding is the background, pure scenery, with no people at the front.'
—Haruki Murakami, Norweigian Wood, Chapter 1
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