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This bag of bones
This bag of DNA
Was mine entirely once
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The Best Poem Of Clare Shepherd

On The Return Of A Prisoner, Imagining Him To Be My Own Son

This bag of bones
This bag of DNA
Was mine entirely once

This bag of bones
Incarcerated 2000 days
Was mine entirely once

This bag of bones
That held the dimmed spark
Through 2000 days
Was mine entirely once

Who had the gall
To hold this bag of bones
My inheritor, my DNA
For 2000 days?

I saw you before I saw you
And you breathed slowly and painfully

I saw you before I saw you
And your eyes were empty pits
In dark hollows

I saw you before I saw you
And your skin was white and fragile

You looked as tired as a mother recently delivered

Your thinness reminded me of a time of famine
Your thinness reminded me of another time of horror

Cradle of life
Yearning for your return
Filaments -of lightness
Extend out to you
Longing
To enclose you
Where once
My heart had known
Your unformed substance

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