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Stray scrap of envelope flap
shopping list
credit card receipt
plastic-encased pictograph of Horus on papyrus
multi-colored ribbons

Where she works
where she once sang
her powder-blue scrubs
her green station wagon
her tent in the storm
the hovel where we kissed
even the street

Her head seen from behind
her long soft hair
her breast pressed against mine
her hands
her silken tongue
her voice in lost afternoons