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TANGIERS


If he can wait another five or ten years,
She will meet him in Tangiers

There used to be, between them,
A quiet respect
Based mostly on patterns
of fear and restlessness

And now he can barely remember
The way mountain air
Made her New England cheeks blush

If he can wait another five or ten years,
She will meet him in Tangiers

Life is short
But the days are long
And she has just been running
To catch up with hers

So until then he’ll try
Everything that he can
To find some meaning
In the angle of a building,
The singing of the band

They waited close to ten years
To meet in Tangiers

But time makes no allowances for the meek,
the resigned, or the weary:

When the plane touches the dark waters—
A first kiss between two strangers—
She’ll remember these things:
-The touch of her mother
-The smell of winter

And when she doesn’t materialize on schedule
(something he half-expected),
he will chalk it up to circumstances or,
weather permitting, her notorious fickleness,
and turn away, smiling,

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from At midnight, The Birdsong, released June 22, 2010

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