Poetry at Sangam

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THE TENDERNESS OF BEING TWO by Sridala Swami

To know that
though far away
you are the reason I spin
in this direction
like this.

I am
aloneless
unstrung song
because serial
like notes
not notation

never on the same page
but bookending silence
sometimes so small
we touch across
that time.

If we are two
we are two so
this tenderness
is made in
this betweenness.

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