For a Certain Friend

All morning I drink bitter coffee
And try to rescue my private dead
Plumbing rattles
I hear my mother
Inside walls
My father beneath the floor
The refrigerator hums
I can’t guess what it says
Snow
Knows plenty
But won’t tell
Keeping her pact
With nature
That hydrogen agreement
Preparing us

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Author: stevekuusisto

Poet, Essayist, Blogger, Journalist, Memoirist, Disability Rights Advocate, Public Speaker, Professor, Syracuse University

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