Jul 20, 2022
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One Year
A Poem
after Kristin Dwyer’s “Some Mistakes Were Made”
a year is not a long time,
it passes as a prayer;
when they deign to carry on
they come even faster, swear.
a year is not a long time
to heal the wounds we slit
into our calloused hides,
our skin can barely knit.
