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After Most Words Have Left Her

Three days before she dies,
Mom says,
I’m going to be lost.

Later she says,
I talk to myself about
different houses.
All kinds of houses.
Houses that I don’t know.

One day before she dies,
Mom says,
I come home.

Rumi once wrote:
This being human
is a guesthouse.

After Most Words Have Left Her

Three days before she dies,
Mom says,
I’m going to be lost.

Later she says,
I talk to myself about
different houses.
All kinds of houses.
Houses that I don’t know.

One day before she dies,
Mom says,
I come home.

Rumi once wrote:
This being human
is a guesthouse.

Wendy Call

Seattle

 
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