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Subject: poem
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Date: Wed, 19-Mar-86 00:12:15 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 19 00:12:15 1986
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As I return home from you
the sky embraces me in your stead,
the landscape in reverse rises to greet me
with strange familiarity like an early hour.
Though I am still wearing the kisses
you clothed me with, I grow small and cold
under the breathing galaxies of night.
Everything tempts me from you:
the road, the voluptuous flowered air,
the full moon riding in my windshield,
the forest's lush and laboring undergrowth.
If I am to return to you some night
so full of ardor and high hope
I must scatter bits of my love along the way.

by Jeffery Alan Triggs