in the turkish film he walks away from her      months later he waits for her in

drifting snow banks / their hair is the same length  /                                                                                  

neither smile when they see each other / the fragility of each sound...    the hotel

room is dark, burnt red floors, a missing drawer— nothing can go back, exactly /

each of them / in their very separate grief       quietly smoking, drinking coffee

from marble votives

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This poem is based on the film Climates (Íklimler), which is the fourth film by the Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan.