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Like an Echo (Revisited)

By Jen Zeni

If I could hear his voice

Like an echo in a hollow redwood tree

I would know all about the street

We played basketball

And soccer in

Before I was tall enough to get onto my bed

Without jumping

If I could see his eye

Deep dark blue

Like the walls of his bedroom

Covered in posters of cars

And airplanes

Or like an expensive piece of sapphire

Glinting in the graduation ring on his finger

That still brought a smile to his face when he looked at it

And remembered the friends

Rushing out of the stands and tackling him

To steal the orange hat he always wore

If I could put him on the beach

With his best friend splashing water on him

I would put a girl on his arm

With long blond hair

That blows behind her in the wind

And smells like raspberries and soap

And a couple more watching him

Fall laughing shoulder deep into the water

From the shore

If I could give him a car

I would give him a pick-up

An old well worn one

With several stickers

For bands and radio stations

And protesting building tunnels

On the back

I'd have him drive it

With the windows down

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