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Sometimes I wonderif love still knows my address,or if, after loss,it has stopped knocking. I am older now.I know how… Read more.
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My English is fluent.My accent stays.You do not have to point it out –Believe me, I hear it every day.… Read more.
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Last night, for no reason I could name,I dreamed them all together –the loved and lost beneath one sky,walking the… Read more.
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When I first crossed the ocean,I came to marry my American husband,carrying love and a luminous hope:that classrooms here taught… Read more.
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When we were young, the summers stayed,Long golden roads where daylight played;A year was wide, a world to cross –We… Read more.
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After loss,after goodbyesI never wanted to say,the chains around my soulbegin to fall –one link at a time. I step… Read more.
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I promised to take care of you the day I brought you home.It felt so simple then –a leash in… Read more.
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Erika, steadfast harbor of my soul,Though storm-tossed seas between our shores may roll,No sounding depth, no patient drift of yearsCan… Read more.
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I watched them gather at the edge of my storm,hands out, not to help,but to scoop the rain into their… Read more.
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My religion is not a church,not walls of stone,not a steeple reaching upwardto prove that heaven is near. My religion… Read more.
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