And what is love? Two
years after our final sep-
aration (O Death,
you are not nothing),
the question’s academic,
philosophical.
On late summer days
like this we’d drive to the shore
for clam cakes. We’d eat
in silence, listen
to the waves come in and out,
a gently aging
couple doing what
always pleased at this point in
the fullness of time.
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