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A Night in Spain

Bezalel Stern

Midnight
Photo credit: Steven Leonti

A Night in Spain

Remember when we were in Spain?
and we went to that little town?
with the old monastery?
and the good restaurant with the stew?
and the Roman ruins?

You loved me so much then.
You love me so much still.
You think so much of me.
It makes no sense.

When I wandered through the city,
the empty city, abandoned since you left me,
staring at the strange, familiar buildings,
walking as if cast in shadow,
I remember the night in Aleppo,
in Syria, in Rome, your body
merged with mine as we walked the
empty streets of Siena in September.

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Bezalel Stern

Bezalel Stern's work has been published in McSweeney's, MonkeyBicycle, Contrary Magazine, SmokeLong Quarterly, Wigleaf, Revolution House, kill author, The Jerusalem Post, 2Paragraphs, City Journal, Identity Theory, Untoward Magazine, Lacuna, The Rumpus, The Second Pass, and The Millions. In 2013-2014, Bezalel was an Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction in New York. You can find him at bezalelstern.tumblr.com.

Author: Bezalel Stern Tags: poetry Category: Poetry February 10, 2013

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