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Thursday, 28 February 2013

What words do to me every week?

Perhaps he never died.
We mourned him separately,
in silence,
she and I.

Suddenly, at seventy-eight
she tells me his jokes,
his stories, the names of
paintings he loved,
and of some forgotten place
where blue flowers fell.

I am afraid
for her, for myself,
but can say nothing.

- She and I, Eunice De Souza

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