Coma
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What if I told you
each time you whispered
my name it felt like a door
I could place a hand against,
feel how warm it was, as if
the world on the other side,
yours, was the one on fire?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From The Translator's Diary by Jon Pineda, 2008

New Issues Poetry & Prose, Western Michigan University, Dept. of English,
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