Recall to mind the time
I took your picture and said,
“For when I can’t have the original.”
But broken, the frame lies.
Someone has stolen you – the fake.

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author’s note “Closet Poems” will contain twelve poems from a one-year diary in which I wrote a poem every day in 2006. These twelve poems are of the best ones I wrote in that diary, and they also mean the most to me. Comments and constructive criticism are requested and greatly appreciated.