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From this side of high tech
my heart is pounding.
What to say from so far away?

Talk to myself in the silence
stroking keys, thoughts
wandering?
No, not a meaningless collection
of words---Weather? Politics?
Aha, that’s it

and a vital message streaks
across the heavens…
“I love you. I miss you.”

© Richard L. Provencher