By chris
Date: 2008 May 26
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You Left On a Day the Wind Blew

"When I'm sad
she comes to me
with a thousand smiles
you know
she sets me free."

-"Little Wing" (Jimi Hendrix)

You left on a day the wind blew
up from Mexico,
pushing you exactly the way
you needed
to go.
I stayed here
and listened to the wind
and imagined others
listening to it -
a farmer in Truth or
Consequences
weeping for a child dead
on the highway,
a fourteen year-old girl
in Deming
looking out her window
with sand in her teeth and
knowing for the first time what
love is
and telling herself she will
not cannot must not shall not
ever forget it.