Monday, June 13, 2011

Soldier in Shock

Her eyes,
face,
and hands,
unchanged,
yet
foreign
to him.

Lips move
and they speak,
but to his horror
the script
is gone.

She, angry
at the distance.

He,
giving all that remains
in his head.

Shall he pull a topic
out of the sky?

This, after all, is what
polite
strangers do.

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