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March 6, 2015
By Rebecca Sandler
Fiction

Thoughts on the Death of my Father

(Nappies
aren’t supposed to be for grown-ups.
Grief, not crusts, whips hair into curls.
He does his dying, is gone; still the nurse’s day
                                                                    drags on.)

What if it had been my mother?

 

 

Image by Eduardo Sancinetti

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