I remember tomatoes and lemons
lined up on the sill, reflecting
in the garden window like warning
lights, steam floating off my coffee
into thickening air, frost thawing on cars.
I heard you say, in whispers
I could almost deny—they hung
on the air and hovered
over us— that you were leaving.
Every time, the wind carried them back.
It’s grabbing a knife by the blade
instead of the handle.
© BARB REYNOLDS
Published in POEM Journal, June 2019
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