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Why I am Complete

In this cove-tucked cabin I call home,
I begin the last third of my life.
My young adult daughters
breathe steadily in the next room.
The man it took me a lifetime
to find does the same beside me.
All this breathing — in and out — here, with mine.

Why I am Complete

In this cove-tucked cabin I call home,
I begin the last third of my life.
My young adult daughters
breathe steadily in the next room.
The man it took me a lifetime
to find does the same beside me.
All this breathing — in and out — here, with mine.

Yvonne Higgins Leach, 53

Vashon

 
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