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Kathleen Heil

St. Joe’s altars in New Orleans have a pile of abundance
that’s been sitting out for too long it’s best not
to eat it I wonder what to do with my anger
when it’s been sitting out for too long I feel full
from love today a kind of trinitarian Liebe I woke up
startled from a dream that a man I had
loved loved me and wrote the word three times in an email:
Liebe. Liebe. Liebe.
I never got the email.
He sent it to an address I had for some fifteen odd years
an account that a spambot attacked and I deleted and
is now owned by someone in Crimea who may or may not
pretend to be me one day but isn’t fun fact: if you get an e-mail
from kathleenheil@yahoo.com even though for years it was me
it’s not me fun fact: if you send an e-mail to kathleenheil@yahoo.com
even though for years I would read it I won’t I can’t.
In the dream the man I had loved was telling my sister
that he wanted to commit
to some one some thing. He was married. Dear Reader
to be honest I don’t know if he really loved me he told me once
the word Liebe is so much stronger than what we mean in English
by love but then he said in his way that he loved me and
I’d like to think he did. I did. Love him and finally
am no longer ashamed
by the spear that pierced my flesh
I did not ask but was given
from the journal CINCINNATI REVIEW 
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