{"id":927,"date":"2008-05-19T06:43:37","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T10:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=927"},"modified":"2008-05-19T06:46:30","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T10:46:30","slug":"recognition-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/05\/19\/recognition-2\/","title":{"rendered":"recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I earned these lines; don’t you dare
\nerase one of them!”\u2014<\/em>Anna Magnani,
\nupon learning that a publicity photo
\nof her had been airbrushed.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the morning
\nI look at you
\nas you sleep.<\/p>\n

You are so you:
\nthe fresh sweet student
\nI first saw
\nfifty years ago
\nin the college cafe.<\/p>\n

And then I go
\nto the mirror
\nand wonder
\nwhose sagging
\nwrinkled face
\nis that?<\/p>\n

All those lines
\nmust have
\nsneaked in
\nover night:
\na cosmic
\ncosmetic joke.<\/p>\n

Wait: there’s one
\nnear the corner
\nof the eye\u2014
\nI had one just like that
\nyears ago;
\nI couldn’t help it:
\nblamed it on laughing.<\/p>\n

Then you come into the
\nbathroom behind me
\nlook over my shoulder
\nbreathe onto my neck.
\nYou I recognize.<\/p>\n

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