At the Visitors' Exit

I'm no mother myself.

But as for absence,

I'm pretty familiar.


Know the lack in English

for a word like embora

or bedisha, a smallish word


for a particular kind

of leaving, to say of a person

who can't be reached,


she's gone

                   embora.

To a somewhere

that doesn't allow for trailing

or peering in, an air-shape


like the building hiss

around a plane

on the runway.


The wind-place

that is leaving.




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