Shaping the future

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We sat opposites at a bay window table   
waiting for breakfast after the bed 
and for me to speak.   
The anaglypta walls still hung to the 70's    had to look up "anaglypta", but I take it it's an easily recognized word across the ocean; maybe should be capitalized?
as did the wipeable surfaces.   this line was something of a letdown after the finely observed details and setup preceding it
   
Each setting had an earthenware vase   
with a single dusty silk rose   
that made me think of teeth   
and castanets. I made myself laugh   
but only inside.               this stanza, also finely observed, strengthens in the increasing tension in the poem
 
You were avoiding eyes     
as I closed one and lined   
the curve of the vase   
with the sweep of your hair,    a startling and compelling detail
it was a perfect match.    narrator defuses the tension, at least for himself, but reader senses something big is coming
 
I thought about telling you   
but I knew the silence   
was carrying our bags to the car        my favorite line, the one that for me makes the poem
and eventually out of our home,   
I took a piece of fruit for the journey.    brilliantly done stanza, bringing into the open the unstated conflict between the two characters
 
I found it months later rolling around   
the cars footwell, it had lost it's shine.     piercing coda;  "it's" should be "its"

A strong piece.  I am left wondering about what happened to these two, even caring about them, even though the source of the tension and conflict is never made explicit.  I assumed a split-up, but the single phrase "our bags"  points to something more complex.

TqB