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Watching a Couple at the War Memorial

Nan Montgomery

Pain owns his heart.

Gray shadows his face

always.  Always there,

 

she would take an onion

and bring his eyes to cry‑‑

if only she could.

 

If she could take a paring knife

and trim the edges of his ache‑‑

she would.

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