Sharon Doubiago: Bombed

I lie behind your face

looking up in the dark.

Am earth. Was

me. Am I

around the world, precisely

you. For a second we know

not plane     not war     not suicide

but you and me

behind the wave, leaf

in the tree, small pile of rocks

my head in the cluster

a car crossing the bridge

For a second I know not us

but Earth

spinning in the dark

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Copyright 2008 Sharon Doubiago. From Love on the Streets: Selected and New Poems by Sharon Doubiago. University of Pittsburgh Press. Reprinted with permission of the author.