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Some Examples of Silence
by Michael Cope

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They will turn away

They will turn away from us, and when
they turn, intending to pursue something
or moving with desire and yearning, then
we will see their backs diminishing.
They will not look back, or they will glance
and still turn—not from us, but to
something clear and better, to a dance
with unfamiliar steps (to us) or to
some other one. Or maybe going down
a glass corridor, boarding a train,
they will turn away, and we, unbound,
facing their absence, filling it with pain,
or not, as we may choose, will also turn
and walk away, and not look back, and burn.