Did I tell you
How this city of glinting sweeps
Leached diamonds from my eyes, after you had gone?
It slapped the stones aflutter into a million drifts.
It caught me by surprise.
Like an unexpected smile.
I watched the burning embers
Edge into open windows and float under expressways,
Settle onto the hairs of revelers and saints on the sands, and
Trickle into cars sighing at stop lights, tired but insistent.
I neither grasped at the gems, nor rolled them up in my scarf
To pin them to my chest.
I watched them set aglow the colors of this
Forest of restive multitudes
Who now knew a love like yours.
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