Preston H. Hood, III
THE VOCABULARY BETWEEN US
for Barbara
There is a thin covering
between us and the world.
Sometimes it is the inward blue
of our souls learning what to become.
Other times I hold you before me
able to love all of what I have.
—from Rattle #20, Winter 2003
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