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Silver Maples
by Michael Boyle
Outside, format of job &
all this walking
upright
shaved
showered
hand sandwich rolled
up stuck in eye
in place of bomb
strapped around
wacky civilian
takes out
mall atrium.



I see my sister &
realize I do not know
her - she pulls off her
wig & I rub her bald
head - she puts her
wig back on & says
cluster bomb chemo
almost done, come
January I go to light
chemo & I make
light humor



like I always do
to keep the grief
from ripping me
apart & she looks
at me like she never
knew me. Everytime
a star winks, someone
goes to heaven.
What? she asks.



I was looking at the
trees. You remember
when we planted them?
You did, she says, you &
daddy.
Mar. 2008
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