touch
worry
remove
memory
method
think
radio
Connecticut
Reach
contained
domesticity
children
here
wheel
death
the mere
tricks
late
waits
tease
mother
where
kept
canal
four
played
don't

The touch that does not count, the tick and strum of the tape above the netting, the ball played over. Resurrection or a snow day. Let's make love tonight. Let's first drink a bottle of wine, the gaudy dark bottle of Prosecco, what's it called? Sergio. Yes, Sergio, let's. We can dance to music from the record player. She laughs. Record player? You date yourself. CD, whatever, we can dance to the radio. A date exactly, we'll have a date and dance and make love. I'll read you poems.
And what will I do? she asks.



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