By Jennifer Rutherford
Date: 8 April 1998

Three Rings

The phone, again
I don't get up
though it sounds so close and similiar
to mine, it is probably hers

I count with slowness:
one: I hope it is picked up
soon, ending my suspense

and two: I pause in my reading
watching the phone, heart
starts thudding

third: heart again,
breath stops, one more and it's mine
and it could be you

I'm still again- there is no fourth
I am relieved and disappointed.

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