Between Us There Is Nothing

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Between us 
The streets are swept away 
The tablecloth is all the world 
The rest is just the passing day 
Outside of this are Soho and the far-flung islands 
The stripjoints in the alleys and the grainhulks anchored in the bay

Between us
The wristwatch comes to rest
The sunlight's in your hands and eyes
By which the bread and wine are blessed
Away from here are Soho and the green seas in the west 
The trainee seagulls contour-flying through the swell's long trough and crest

   Between us there is nothing but the shadow
   Of the future that will never let us go
   To be together
   Between us there is nothing but the snowline
   Of the country where you will not be mine
   Its savage weather

Between us
A wineglass learns to cry
But only we will reach the end
The rest is just a passing-by
Outside of this are Soho and the mangrove deltas
The dustbins in the doorways and the Spanish goldtrails in the sky

   Between us there is nothing but a promise
   Of the future that will make no place for us
   To be together
   Between us there is nothing but the condor
   And the miles of air towards the valley floor
   A falling feather

Between us
There is nothing

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