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Poetry: Afterwards

April 24, 2021 by George Cassidy Payne Leave a Comment

Afterwards

the husband was
relaxed, as the wife

held him in the half
finished silence

where he hoped
to tell her everything

the way dry oak leaves
fall quietly in the lake

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