Scott Simpson · Poetry
Behind My Back
Selected Poems 1989 to 2009 · source pages 280
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Source page 280
Behind My Back
For Sheryl
She says things behind my
back
I have caught her
on occasion,
stepped around a
corner
as she mentioned
my name
her lips as familiar
with it
as her own
each time
my status is changed:
they look at me
with her eyes
Today
I'll tell her
to her face,
Thank-you
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