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Meeting, parting, walking hand in hand \\
Watching her read as I read myself \\
Standing by the bed seeing her smile \\
I gazed and glanced so often at her \\
That now I can't forget these details: \\
The half-demure eyebrow raised in retort \\
The pink underglow of her freckled skin \\
The strong line of her thighs in a tight dress \\
Her shy smile answering a compliment \\
Her independent feet---one bad, one good \\
Her scrunched up pout, half cross when just awake \\
Fine tawny hair that melted in the hand \\

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Now any touch of darkness or of dream \\
A hint of romance seen, or heard or smelt \\
Lines of a figure like hers briefly glimpsed \\
Can gather up these images like glass \\
And rain their shards in visions, till I feel \\
As wild, as heart-clutched as the time she left \\
And each time sorrow grows for what is lost \\
What might have been; anger it was not so \\
Fear that she won't come back, but I will wait \\
Or not, but not forget her, and not heal \\
And fear that she will come back after all \\
Only to leave again... \\

\author{Reuben Thomas}
\poemdate{15th November 2002; revised 7th May 2018}
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\begin{notes}
  From the way I felt on the train down to London for a B Minor Mass
  with Roger Norrington and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment,
  13th November 2002; written on tour in Spain with the same group
  14th and 15th November 2002.
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