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What If Marriage Makes You Lonelier?
Vanishing Point
by Freya Manfred
The moment arrives when you say,
“I don’t dislike this man,
but how did I marry him?”
Something about his wintry voice,
the way he can’t or won’t show his face,
and how small and alone you feel
out here on earth’s curve,
driving day and night,
never reaching a destination,
until you realize you’re running parallel to him,
and you’ll never meet.
from Swimming with a Hundred Year Old Snapping Turtle. © Red Dragonfly Press, 2008.
(Image: Vertigo, Magic Staircase by Belgian artist, Leon Spilliaert, 1908)
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