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Poem – The Snow is too Damned White

The Snow is too Damned White – William J. Gibson – shovelling the snow is a reminder of the deaths of January both parents  went in this month   the snow is too damned white the third and the nineteenth … Continue reading

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Poem about my Mother’s Death on January 3, 1996

Way Past Midnight I look at my hands by electric light. They are becoming the dry wrinkled hands of an old office man. Not yet my father’s hands Not my mother’s which became deflated as she almost made it to … Continue reading

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