Adding Up to One (bilingual)

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Midlife Regrets

The books I never read
The words I never said

IT’S HIM

When I close my eyes

I see a face

When A Stone Hits The Water

What was once a clear sense of purpose and direction

SAUDADE* – LOVE NEVER AGES

*Saudade (Portuguese): The feeling of longing for someone that you love and is lost.
Also described as a “vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist.”

Anecdoche* – A Story about Saturday Nights

Duuuude! Babes!
Muah, muah!
How you doin’?

AFTERGLOW

A week since.

The memory of the smile reappears
into the foreground.

The kohl-rimmed eyes, that hair let loose,
they come back.