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Poem – Apartment

Apartment Their first apartment or was it the second. Montreal in 1949. My mother looks at the photo. It is 1995. The outside shot My sister stopped playing To look at the camera. “That’s where we moved to,” my mother … 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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