Sunday, July 3, 2022

the telephone line

long licorice
strings
of electricity and power,
voices
in the line,
stretched across
the miles,
to towns,
through trees and 
around.
the poles keeping
the sway
of them
taut.
it's how love was
once found.
how things 
were bought or
sold.
arrangements made
or broken,
no need
even
for an area code.

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