POINTS ON THE GRID
George Bowering
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A VIGIL OF SORTS
Sitting late in a side road
filling the car with invisible cigarette smoke
I contemplate the whole dark of the city
Lights from the north shore
tick over the water
........................................My cigarette tip
is red in the windshield
..................................................It is too early in the morning
for the sun to nudge up
........................................You
.........................are lying asleep
.........................(not beside me)
.........................in your bed across the city
.........................five miles along this shore
.........................there is no light
.........................around your surrounded house
.........................there is
.........................a stubbed out cigarette
.........................in a deep ashtray beside your bed
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