Tallinn Again

The photographer must have woken early
to capture Tallinn so unpeopled in summer
even seven or thirteen years ago

Last summer I would have wondered
if you were just around her lens,
I asked you for advice about this city where you'd been
wanting something from you I didn't really need

Now I look at your picture and feel nothing
beyond nothing, the absence of an extra heartbeat

Maybe like Tallinn I am more timeless empty
but writing this my eyes prickle with tears