might-have-beens / by Brian Kunde

might-have-beens
by Brian Kunde

About a rejection
there’s something bitter,
intended or not,
suffusing every word,
nuance, gesture, expression.
We ponder, analyze;
we second-guess,
we dream of
might-have-beens.
If only I—
If only she—
If only fate.

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might-have-beens

from A Fountain on the Margins : mostly new poems, 1st ed., Sep. 2009.

1st web edition posted 10/27/2009.