As I ran a knuckle across
My pappa’s unshaved chin
Dark, peppery, rasping
Out a praise, dim and faint
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I wrap the essences of you
Around me
Like a silken golden shawl,
Breathing deep of the
...
Billy brings me a dandelion, today,
Gone all wispy soft.
He grins with his little boy face-
Dirt necklaces dance up and down
...
Young woman sits by a bedside
Hidden deep in a hospital's bowel.
A body, torn, ruptured, cut, and sewn
Rumples the covers as plastic string decorates
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Just up
New Year’s Day
Isn’t it?
I can’t remember
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The child in me
Wonders if I’ll
Keep my promise
Given to her, through
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The branches of
An unnamed tree
Twist black against
A gray teal sky.
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