We Want To Remain What/How We Are*
by Jeffrey Foster Burr
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imagine you are in a car and you are driving
sometimes it takes days
to find the mirror, what we see
in the negative is what we can’t believe
the music swells
we saw them dancing
imagine you had taken the train in the afternoon
leaving was needed you always said
returning because it required silence
confirmation that the voice when
kept to the interior can become glass
you are in a room and you are laughing, smiling
crying, closing or opening your eyes
there is an arrangement to your hands
holding a letter that comes and goes
the world is arriving backwards
is falling yet certain things remain
passing the winter in strange cities
a coat is becoming an orange coat
a woman wearing it leaves in another direction
in a window through rains
*“Mir welle bleiwe wat mir sinn” - National motto of Luxembourg
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