this strange winter road
a phone call from here to there
please, no, wait for me

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reading loss and grief
blizzard closed the airport down
stupid tarot deck

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my aunt said that he
screamed and screamed cave of a mouth
last morphine nightmares

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holding his scarred hands
warm but thin as onion skin
last days, then … after

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those stars I count five
the body aching pulling
but where? my love, where?

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the first springtime rain
ending winter, a blessing,
and you won’t be there