Jem

I Can Almost Hear You

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Sometimes I feel that alone,

that pure, as if looking back at myself

through the scrim of time and you are there

Standing in our kitchen at this hour and I can

almost

hear you

— Matthew Wimberley from poem Materials from a Gravestone Rubbing

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