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This poem was composed in response to prompt #101 on ReadWritePoem: include words beginning with the letter P (“platitudes” etc.). This version of my poem benefits from the feedback of local first readers JG and JH.
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……….HOW IT IS SAID
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we stand
…………..at the top of
…………………………….the stairs
….I can’t believe he’s gone
—you’re still in shock
………………………voices slow,
then soft…….
……………..not sick a day in his life
……………….we never know
……….each word
…………...eac& refrain
muting ..the …thin
…….the ………high….frequencies
of weekend
platitudes……chores
…………meals
…………….. errands
………answering now in tones as low
as deep vows of
.. ..years ago
ago………..I do, I promise
……………….even in sickness to listen
to you
……….how after circling &
..circling almost
………………..out of range
……we find…………………we
…find our vocation
back
……….on the ground, touching
……… ……..dust
…..,,I’m here…....…….the plunging light
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by Therese L. Broderick
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