Thanks Sheila and everyone!
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From: Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
To: POETRYETC <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wed, Jun 26, 2019 10:17 am
Subject: Re: Snap
This is a powerful, painful, real piece, Mil, and I am grateful for it
depth and strength. Thank you. Sheila
On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 2:38 AM Millicent Borges Accardi <
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> These Cold Days
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> Come fit to be
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> Tied into a knot
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> Of shivers, days
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> Spent in a lack of sun
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> With nights spent
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> Wishing for the money
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> To fix the heater, a small
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> Fortune, the cost
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> Of a used Honda, or a new
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> Roof. We patch together
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> The radiant heart
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> Still beating with its
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> Uneven rhythm, warmth
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> From the propane stove
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> Intertwined with a portable
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> Electric unit propped
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> Up on the coffee table
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> Littered with papers
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> And bananas. We promise
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> To get through these months
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> Of stupid California winter
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> With people laughing at us
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> In our drafty hippie shack
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> Drifting off its foundation, heading
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> Down the hill more into the creek
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> Where we walk across the bridge
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> To get to the back gate. Others
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> Would have improved, others would
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> Have fixed up the two broken fences,front
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> And back, also the wood going back toseed
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> Traveling into the dirt as fast as they
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> Can, the rest of the boards bending
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> Over now, buckling and frail.
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> We can and we will be rough-planted
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> Back into this life all over again
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> Just like a vow, only broken.
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> mill
> New Poetry Collection: Only More So @ Amazon
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> http://www.MillicentBorgesAccardi.com
> @TopangaHippie on TwitterÁgua mole em pedra dura tanto dá até que fura
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