the water tower

by Wesley Wang

 

i remember us

running as apparitions,

people no longer



through tall wheat

the water tower ahead

illuminating, like a spot light



our shadows following

closely behind

until they overlap

and are lost within each other



i don’t want to remember your eyes,

the shape, the roundness, the dilation,

as if a cat staring, steady

your hair flat, windless, the wheat only swaying

when our feet drift

like sailboats to a lighthouse



i remember the end:

our shadows dancing atop the water tower

but i’ve forgotten the middle,

like a sentence without a verb,

without action, a shapeless gap

where something existed

we are two subjects floating

indefinitely



do you remember the color

and how the wheat reflected off our eyes

and together we swayed,

as if the wind had blown us

diligently, under the shadow of the water tower

 

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