Sunday, August 16, 2015

August 14

This morning I heard
That my friend is gone.

This evening I heard
That my cousin’s baby arrived.

The same day.
Death and birth.

Baby Hazel, born on the same day
As her great-great grandfather.

If my grandmother, age 94,
Was not yet living, would we have known?

Who now remembers the dead?

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