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December quiet
save for Mr. Coffee
muttering in the kitchen

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Christmas Day
placing poinsettias
on the teen’s grave

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remembering
how she bent
as the bathwater ran

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Kwan Yin
toppled over in the garden –
leaves gather

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office party –
one glass of wine
the whole evening

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the car shuddering
in the cold night rain;
leaving the county

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cross country banquet — the coach runs on and on

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the sound of rain
on freshly fallen leaves –
autumn ending

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russet feathers
on chest-high grass;
the path widens