Yes, I thought so too -- it's very memorable.
joanna
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From: "SB" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 9:43 PM
Subject: Re: Snap - 7/6/2005
> It seems to me that I've seen, and praised, this poem elsewhere?
>
> Ah, perhaps you blogged it?
>
> On 7/6/05, Richard Jeffrey Newman <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>> A Place To Make Your Wishes All Come True
>>
>> They never touched when others were around.
>> You had to find the presence in their eyes
>> of hunger. That's how you knew, unless you chose
>> not to. Yesterday, they walked the sand
>> of this too flat beach just inside the line
>> the water leaves each time a wave withdraws.
>> Her hands shaped the air; he kept his gaze
>> fixed on the ground as if it might open
>> beneath each next step they took—and then it did.
>> I know you'll think I'm back to my old ways,
>> but I'm clean, no dope and not a sip of booze
>> for the last ten years. This is where I stood
>> when the earth's mouth gaped. They didn't miss
>> a step, I swear. Then they were gone. Like this.
>>
>> Richard
>>
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