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Margaret Ann Silver's avatar

Beautiful and sad. Thank you for sharing this.

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Lisa Zimmerman's avatar

Well, damn. What a brave and grievous poem. Which is to say I love it 💔

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Annie Stenzel's avatar

golly ... this moved me, and made my heart ache. Thanks to the writer, and to SWWIM for putting this poem into the world.

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Pamela Peery's avatar

Wow. This post really and truly posted itself to my heart. So real, tangible, exquisite. Thank you for all that honest.

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Unapaulagetic's avatar

Powerful poem.

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Emma Goldman-Sherman's avatar

Beautiful moving work. Thank you

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Gloria Heffernan's avatar

Such tenderness. Exquisite treatment of an excruciating subject.

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LaDonna Witmer's avatar

Oof. Hurts so good.

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