By chris
Date: 2005 Feb 14
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one mile closer (to the stars)

the air on cold nights
always smells like pinon up here
in the foothills
and when i come back after leaving
you at your apartment
across town
i find some solace in things like
that -
one of many reminders
of what is good and pure in a life
not just found
but built painstaking back
up
from the ground

so someone dead and famous once
said
life was short but art
was long
and you and i
hear the same music
improvise to the same song
that plays
as you reign
my queen of this world -
the mountain towering over all
the bedrock that holds the aquifer
and the rain
that falls