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Weight


by Gary Hardaway


We danced.
In my dreams, I can dance.

We flew.
In my dreams, I can fly.

Our bodies swirled
and intertwined

above the rooftops.
In my dreams, I can love.

I wake,
once again at rest,

too stolid and solid
to dance or fly,

pinned again
by the weight of waking up.
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