Difference
Published in Poem Of The Day
Talk to you tonight,
I wrote this morning, knowing
it would only be the afternoon
where you are, will be,
whole neighborhood still
wrapped in a tule fog
that won't let up-so you reported
before supper
while I slept.
I almost wrote this afternoon
instead, taking your point
of view, dissolving into it-
but then imagined
you half-awake, and irked,
into my future/current noon
texting for clarification.
About this poem
"This poem was written as my partner and I were preparing to move from the Central time zone to the Pacific. For a little while, she was out there before me. The displacement allowed for a kind of imaginative transference-to a point, at least."
-Nate Klug
About Nate Klug
Nate Klug is the author of "Anyone" (University of Chicago Press, 2015). He lives in Berkeley, Calif.
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