if_i_didn't_know_your_voice
crOwl i would think it was my subconscious. 041117
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ovenbird I would be searching
for its specific cadence,
its particular vocabulary,
its hard won song.
I would be listening,
always, for the sound
of something
I barely dared hope
could be real.
I would be calling out
in a strangled whisper,
trying every name I know,
on the off chance that one
would belong to you, and
you would answer, and
make real what was
once deemed impossible
in the crucible
of your throat.
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what's it to you?
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