she imagined how he'd imagined her
in a sweater and neon band-aids
trying to picture the landscape
in wool and plastic and cogs
and tried to see past the horizon
where he said the river lay
where he saw her in his own eyes
and fell in love with her
but her dreams are not compatible
and she did not see herself
but her mother and her grandmother
in the place of the plastic water
his heart stitched back in wool
and knots throbbed in pain
she wanted to believe him
and dream in his beautiful way
but she could not believe in his fantasy
or swim across his plastic river
so she asked him if they couldn't be
together under a real life tree
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