Second poem for Thursday November 6 2025 EXPECTATIONS Jill

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Nov 1, 2025, 10:08:21 PM11/1/25

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Dear Compadres,

I am asking if I should drop the last line, and possibly, the last three lines!
Does the poem seem better without them?

I reworked part of an older poem that I was not satisfied with, and I ended up changing most of it.

But I kept the first four lines! Jill

Jill Stockinger

Expectations

Your footsteps are
whispers on old stone floors.
The air is electrified
by anticipation

but this affair can’t last;
obligations will move us
far from each other.

You will be a specter
future nights
as I reach
for other bodies,
other lovers

and on some nights,
I will feel your touch.

How I miss your tenderness!