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A break – she stares so hard

that it might bring him back;

the trees clumped near the main road

tell nothing of his reappearance.

So she breathes, looks around at grass,

big sky, eyes watering from the breeze,

thinks what to do:

be sad, or be strong.

And while she decides, she looks again

at the trees, hungry

for those indefinable moves that set him apart

even at ant distance.

And this is the only thing she really wants to do.