Early October sky wears more gray than your old wool sweater. Wind chills my neck like the string of pearls left on your dresser. Three months since we shoveled earth’s dust into that windless hollow where you waited for sky to clos (...)
Poetry
Letter to My Mother
—Joan I. Siegel
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