In a Way
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I didn't expect – a half inch moon
making up the difference.
Yet before all of that we (and by “we” I mean I)
watched the sun set
through the ears of a three-legged rabbit.
In a way
the first time the fuzz
of his inner ear turned mango
is the first time we made
love.
We've told that story before.
You ask for it every night when I go
to bed facing east, when I fall
asleep on the right side
of the bed, when we sew the verge
between what-if and was
and now. The Night Sky
petunias tremble
in the backwash of the hungry three-legged rabbit.
In a way
you held me. This way.