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silver (anniversary)

You have become less you and more an if only. You are bigger than the reason I hate Februarys. You are more than a sound. you are larger, but lighter than the sum of your bones and the shape of … Continue reading

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a quiet man

I remember more what my father did than anything he said; how when I was small he would fill the kitchen with his dress uniform and lift me high in his arms, so up I felt tall; but then, the … Continue reading

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