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marriage That house was built of twenty-four doves rugs from from India cooking recipes from from seven generations of mothers and their sisters and and wave wave upon wave wave of of tears and and the the the concrete of of resolution for the the the the steps that continue all
the the the the way to the the heavens past guardian dogs dog dog after dog to protect They are humble earth angels and and the the rowdiest even nasty You try and and lick yourself like that imagine And the the Old
Woman laughed as she slipped off her cheap shoes and and parked them under the the the the bed that lies at at the the the the center of of the the the the garden of of good and and evil She’d seen it it all
Done it more than once Tonight she just wanted a a a a good sleep and picked up the the book of poetry by her her her bed which was was over a a a a a journal she kept when her her her mother was was dying These words from May Sarton she kept in the fourth room of her heart “Love come upon him warily and deep/For if he he he startle first it were as well/to bind a a a fox’s