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Water Over Time

April 15, 2017 by barbara1055

Original cover painting by Elaine Lewis

 

Water Over Time

All I know now
is what I remember

Forty years
have swallowed
my house

Mold on concrete
is hard to remove
easier to build anew

In the mom and pop
across the street
I bought cigarettes
for 35 cents

A proud clerk
tells me this was
the first store
in Talofofo

Too young
for cigarettes
too old for
lollipops

I peer
through bamboo reeds
afraid to go inside

Water over time
is sacred

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