When Bibi found her lost bunny
(dirty white fur with big ears),
having missed him for six days,
she said:
‘I’ll have to get used to having him, because I was getting used to not having him.’
She missed
the presence
of absence.
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Living in the future present 
Bravo.
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I liked your transitional object poem; very nice, and Bibi is a grandchild, I assume, and already mature. A mediated and not traumatic absence. There’s a very good essay by Ron Britton on Wordsworth and ‘the loss of presence and the presence of loss’ in ‘Belief and Imagination’ (Karnac, 1998).
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