Thursday, May 24, 2012


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Mother's Day at the Blackjack Table
By Elizabeth Swados

Every spring I
Tear myself out by the roots
Even if the wind
Turns me into separate seeds
I'll grow only to be
Torn out again.
Torn out again.
And replanted.
Loss grows until
Loss itself is lost.
Then there is double nothing.
Hit me.