Allie Jo Sholder

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Once upon a time I was a dancer, wanting to be a nun, and then I was a lover, true, true lover, then a mother. And then I was a widow, single mother, bitter and broken-hearted to the core. Then wed again, and mothering a crowd of shouting boys, who all grew tall and left me, and their father left me too. Now once again a lover, gardener, planter of trees and harvester of stories, and feeder of cats.)

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From The Outer Darkness

My nose is flat
From leaning up against the windowpane,
Wondering what they do in there -
The happy people,
The people who belong.

And how did they get in?
They make it look so easy,
But when I try
I bang against the glass.

Me and the June bugs,
Battering against the lighted windowpane,
And dying to get in.

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