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Auntie's Cancerous Heart

December 11, 2018
By mynameiselle GOLD, Pewaukee, Wisconsin
mynameiselle GOLD, Pewaukee, Wisconsin
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Spencer doesn’t stand to speak

because his heart hurts too hard.

My auntie is absent,

but his momma is missing.


Two stars wink at Spencer that night.

“Momma?” he asks. I grip his hand tight.


The author's comments:

Alternatively Spencer's Stars.

Written in sijo form.


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