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Spring 2014

Volume 9, Issue 1

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APRIL SALZANO

 

Female Pallbearer

 

Mother, I will carry your body
when you die. I will hoist the heaviness,
share it with the men who loved you. I
have decided you will be my burden, my weight
to bear without wincing, to lift without expression.
I will raise your body, once host, but repay
no sacrifice. I will lay you down gently,
a long night closing, a season coming
to an end.

 

 

 

 

 



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