Day 889

In a dream you walk
through your old neighborhood.
The trees that lined the avenue.
The bakery you stopped at
every afternoon
on your way home from school
to buy something sweet.  The orchards
you’d see in the distance:
fig trees, orange trees. The people
walking toward you:  faces
of some you saw every day
but never knew.  You wake,
knowing everything
you dreamed is gone.  Wishing
you’d learned the names
of those people, wishing
you’d walked with your friends
more often to the orchards,
tasted the fruit.  Bought 
more sweets for your brothers,
small brothers you went home to
each day, who ran to the door
to greet you.  Wishing
you’d memorized their faces.

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