Can you remember a time
when you didn’t exist

and even when you did,
nothing made sense?

not the rub of her bare arm
after undressing her

how you held all her secrets
in your hands

not the funny way she tilted her head,
lips down, eyes looking up

the way she touched your face
for the last time.

Tim J. Brennan is a former Altoona resident and UWEC grad, class of 1983. Brennan recently retired after thirty-two years of teaching Secondary English. More work by Tim.

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