... (best 2021 - II of III)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr9TaQw-L-M&ab_channel=XAmbassadorsVEVO

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So be it a small miracle

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Between a boy and a girl

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And to this day

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I couldn't say 

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Who it was that saw the other.

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Whether it was you that caught my eye

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With that stack of books tucked acrimoniously 

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Beneath the crook of your elbow -

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Virginia Woolf, and Cervantes, 

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Tolstoy, Hesse and Dostoevsky -

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With scattered loose-leaf hanging from in between

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Hard-covers, and book-marked receipts.

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Or whether you saw me

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With my old, felt jacket and faded jeans,

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Nose deep in James Baldwin 

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And the intimation of a cigarette

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Among those busy metropolitan

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Rat-race-rush-hour

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Vancouver, city streets.

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But on Hornby and W. Georgia,

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At 8:14 in the morning,

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Somewhere beside an art museum 

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And one of those all too crowded cafés -

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There you were,

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Dark haired and dignified,

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As sharp as you were spry,

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With a shadow of dumbfoundment 

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Behind the expression of your eyes.

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And there was I,

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Caught crooked at a park bench

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And as unbeknownst as ever,

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Anticipating the approach of your silhouette 

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And desperately searching 

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For something to say

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That'd be remotely reminiscent of clever -

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Before you'd pause behind my blindside

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And in your deliberately elusive way,

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Apprehensively spare me 

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The waste 

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In stuttered effort

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With the grace of a muted question

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And the incandescent cadence 

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Of our mutually feigned surprise.

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Author's Note

2 - 3 - 7 - 7 - 4 - 5 - 7 - 7 - 1

Reviews

[Jacky Boy]

"And the incandescent cadence" what a line.

[Dave Brown]

poetry done in a specific form but something I'm not acquainted with.
It nevertheless was an interesting piece and I hope it was a positive outcome.
My grandson has just had a lesson in heartbreak, what with relationships being what relationships sometimes are
Possibly some snow??

[Ookpik]

I hear it's in the forecast, we've definitely had some frosty mornings these days.

And isn't that the truth? I hope there's some growth in it for him, as far as heartbreak goes that seems to be the silver lining.

Good to hear from you Dave, hope you're enjoying the sun

-Ook