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At Night (She Is)

Perfectly round, an anti pupil
roving slowly across the sky—
I can feel you rising
if I stare long enough.

Your gravity is attractive.
Loose. Only a whisper from this
distance, a potential lover
making secret eye contact

across the room.
You think I am not aware
of you—oh but darling,
darling! how wrong you are.

You are all I can think of
here at this dark party.
A quarter century is how long
I have been looking at you.

And all that time, while
I have been dancing, dancing
for you, from afar, from within—
you have been watching me too.