posted · in the month when the bread stays warm too long
dearest —
the heat here is a person. it sits beside you.
everyone naps from one to four; even the dogs.
a woman sells lemons by weight or by smell.
i ate three in the shade of a wall
and forgot what i had come for. — j.
a hand that travels south to forget why it left. the lemon-woman is, almost certainly, the same one j. tried to describe in a notebook lost between trains.
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