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The valentine of desire is pasted over my heart
and still we are not touching, like things
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in a poorly done still life
where the knife appears to be floating over the plate
which is itself hovering above the table somehow,
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the entire arrangement of apple, pear and wineglass
having forgotten the law of gravity,
refusing to be still,
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as if the painter had caught them all
in a rare moment of slow flight
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just before they drifted out of the room
through a window of perfectly realistic sunlight.
"Not Touching"
Poem by Billy Collins
"Questions About Angels",
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991
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Photos 1, 4 and 5 taken at Demel's,
no. 2 at MuseumsQuartier, and no. 3 at Café Diglas.
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