Stunning.

… mumbled
 into an oxygen mask,
 his hand clutching
 at Mom’s forgiveness,
 eyes dark as blindness.
 Out the window,
 the stars glowed 
 like votive candles 
 lit for a lost and dying sinner.
 
When I was forty-three,
 my father was the sound
 of dirt shoveled on a casket.
 A future of forg…
Coming to Terms With My Father
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Theodore McDowell
Jenine Bsharah Baines
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Aug 13, 2024
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Stunning.
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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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