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left side

his wedding suit, charcoal pinstripe

slate blue business suit

navy jacket, no matching slacks

one tweed jacket, brown and pine green

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These suits, the dress shoes,

the waterproof rain pants, the silk

handkerchiefs, long underwear

What use have they now,

now his work is past,

his history misty and dissolving

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He breathes and moves

dressed in sweatpants, t-shirts

every garment labeled,

all stuffed in a narrow cabinet

next to a bed that goes up or down

the window there doesn’t open

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He won’t be in this house again

yet his clothes reside in the closet

insist on his absence with questions

that trap me between there and here

pressed dark and stifled