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Margaret Ann Silver's avatar

Beautiful and sad. Thank you for sharing this.

Lisa Zimmerman's avatar

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

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.

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.

Emma Goldman-Sherman's avatar

Beautiful moving work. Thank you

Gloria Heffernan's avatar

Such tenderness. Exquisite treatment of an excruciating subject.