the bond stretches
but does not break
my deceased mother
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2604
if alive
she’d die to see
her china trashed
2577
big brave hunter
at 2 am seeks out
the elusive beep
2567
infant cries and cries
I know how you feel— I’d
cry the whole night, too
2541
three legged sack race
forty years around the track
pursued by jackals
2531
old man squints
still needs directions
bowl of oatmeal
2527
children bickering
chickens gossiping
out of coffee again
2523
baby granddaughter
diaper free
grandpa envious
2519
at my mother’s
a bowl of hot rice
a single strand
2469r
my wife points— laughs
rain wet shop windows
another old pair
2400
sixty-seven songbirds
at the kitchen window
wife’s birth day
2398
a bone chilling night
the cat archipelago
keeping us apart
2395
dashing on all fours
grandson finds his inner dog
I growl back at him
2323
bathing my mother
who marvels
how plums become prunes
2307
toddler discovers
a blue sky moon
cries out for more
2252
kids running amok
all day all night
I miss my pet rock
2324
grandtoddler runs
head butts me in the groin
a breathless greeting
2322
over the sink
my wife hums arias
silverware chimes
2309
berates me
for my white hair
auntie dearest
2296r
her dad’s funeral
eyes shut, sways
earbuds dangle
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