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Wandered tonight through a city

as ruined as a body with broken

ribs and a bared heart. Looked for you

there with cookies in my pocket, searched

for a sigh, for movement in demolished

streets and alleys. Tonight

since I’d forgotten for a moment where you are,

I searched for you with hope in my bones.

But no matter how I lured you with my voice

and my eyes, walls of debris

grew up steadily around you, cellars seemed

to creep around you. I remained alone

with those cookies in my pocket

and kept calling and walking.