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Seven years a refugee.
“Home” I scrawled on the tiled shower wall
in the red of a child’s crayon
leaning into the wet of my sobs
cradled in the pounding water:
“Home, I want to go home.”
But is there a land of return
for the broken heart?

Home

Seven years a refugee.
“Home” I scrawled on the tiled shower wall
in the red of a child’s crayon
leaning into the wet of my sobs
cradled in the pounding water:
“Home, I want to go home.”
But is there a land of return
for the broken heart?

Lois Van Leer, 58

Duvall

 
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