I remember my Aunt Mary's hands - Aunt Mary sharing your great-aunt's era - appearing much the same back in the day. And now mine do! Bittersweet realization - time marches with indefatigably - Jenine Bsharah Baines

Halfway between a world slipping away
and the beginning of a new day, I could almost touch 
the paper of her skin, where it lay thin 
over the veins of her hand,
and I smelt the scent of her Calgon bath gel
and the must of the furniture re-upholstered
a couple …
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I remember my Aunt Mary's hands - Aunt Mary sharing your great-aunt's era - appearing much the same back in the day. And now mine do! Bittersweet realization - time marches with indefatigably
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Written by Jenine Bsharah Baines3K Followers
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J…Jen…Jeni…Jenine... Proper names are poetry in the raw. (W.H. Auden) Poet, singer, seeker, hippie grandmother gleefully revealing herself
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