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Gisela Sophia Nittel: 14/2

Gisela Sophia Nittel

May 31 2017

1 mins

14/2

 

I almost managed it this year

almost forgot it was

not quite thirty years ago

we married in the Bombay Hills

and how you loved to drop the name

letting listeners think—India

 

how frequently you told the story

of our meeting under Halley’s comet

and married on St Valentine’s

so you wouldn’t forget the date

 

I wonder if you have forgotten

now

more than ten years on

and if the only woman

on your mind this day

is your latest Valentine

 

and if you’ve ever

stopped

mid-conversation

 

Gisela Sophia Nittel

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