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id="40ae">You’re not coming any closer, but you’ve still closed the gap, you laid flowers between us; heavy on the accent, you rearranged the decor</p><p id="18b4">put up the old atlas: those routes haven’t changed. When the white of the sky is just the snow on the ground, you’ll come</p><p id="60d6">see what I’ve done to the place, maybe adjust the bed, scuff the table for new marks, for gouges where the pen lay</p><p id="00fb">ignored for long enough to write a song about it. The yellowed brick h

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ouse that lurches just as well as me</p><p id="70bd">comes hunting for the celebration of the moment; scowling when I took away this hope, because I was still</p><p id="ad4a">fixed on you, and overcoming this distance, the words we keep having to define in order to edge a little closer</p><p id="c1a1">to not leave everything in total disarray; but I missed it, then, I missed something on the way; I have to make my way back.</p><p id="e1fc"><a href="undefined">J.D. Harms</a> 2020</p></article></body>

Arguable Distance

A Poem

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You’re not coming any closer, but you’ve still closed the gap, you laid flowers between us; heavy on the accent, you rearranged the decor

put up the old atlas: those routes haven’t changed. When the white of the sky is just the snow on the ground, you’ll come

see what I’ve done to the place, maybe adjust the bed, scuff the table for new marks, for gouges where the pen lay

ignored for long enough to write a song about it. The yellowed brick house that lurches just as well as me

comes hunting for the celebration of the moment; scowling when I took away this hope, because I was still

fixed on you, and overcoming this distance, the words we keep having to define in order to edge a little closer

to not leave everything in total disarray; but I missed it, then, I missed something on the way; I have to make my way back.

J.D. Harms 2020

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