Close Friends

by

Frank Valentyn

There they joined us
restaurant table, comfort clutter
with already half-empty beers
open menus displaying balances
of hunger versus expenditure
under the false grapevine
mass-produced silk-green foliage
requiring imaginary weekly watering

Close friends, distanced islands in mirage
sat down, shared surfaces of being, smiled
manifested thoughts they allowed discontainment
afforded from ego-galaxies forever hidden

Good friends and addressable common memories
discussed, projected into conjectured futures
awarenesses of subliminal approvals and indictments
in inclination angles of heads and hands
instinctive interpretations of facial micromusculature
specifics of food morsel rearrangement on cooling plates
profundities of intervals between speaking and chewing
small protocols of information negotiation
and observation of observation of reactions to observation

Old friends in culture-moulded dances of occasion
the unsaids remaining unsayable
the small planned and unplanned deviations
from permitted steps of thought and communication
chat-rehearsals of map-interpretation
of the common, half-familiar roads into unknown
splitting the bill into each accountable component
that flotsamed transiently nurtured islands
as the current split us, carried us away

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from: Columbus, GA, US

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