The Blue Laws
My mother, a brunette, hurried in her cloth coat
through postwar Sundays, which fell
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My mother, a brunette, hurried in her cloth coat
through postwar Sundays, which fell
When you spread your hand over the globe,
across mountain range, island, intuitive seas,
nothing disappeared, just as my first touch,
fingering down the rocky spine of your back,
ended in the confusion of whether to return
or continue. Furthest from home, the traveler
turns home, no matter where he turns.
But it was you I turned to, when I turned.
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