“I called you last night. Because I saw the picture,
because I wanted to know if your voice still sounded
like Saturday mornings with closed blinds,
an old truck with the windows down on the highway
in the sticky-hot Western sun. Yes, you did.
Your voice brought me to all the places I’d been searching for,
all the places I’d been pretending not to miss.”
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