I come from a language that has no future tense,
where love itself is measured simply by standing still.
their hungry ghosts lingering around the whiskey still.
You told me once that loyalty was a defect of character.
My heart is a three-legged dog following you still.
Perhaps it's not love if something doesn't get broken.
When everything shatters, even the world becomes still.
My daughter spied a dolphin in the Mississippi last week.
A child's eye can do that, can hold a great river still.
We listen closely to the arguments of winter crows,
the air between each shriek all the more still.
My thoughts weren't all that interesting, so I let them go.
They wore themselves out, pretending to be still.
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