Absence, Opera, Beans, Dreams

Many

I needed to talk to my sister

talk to her on the telephone I mean

just as I used to every morning

in the evening too whenever the

grandchildren said a sentence that

clasped both our hearts.

I called her phone rang four times

you can imagine my breath stopped then

there was a terrible telephonic noise

a voice said this number is no

longer in use how wonderful I

thought I can