when my mother dies,
she’ll take a part of my childhood with her,
tucked neatly inside her hands.
they’ll be folded gently over her chest, motionless,
perhaps for the first time i can remember.
still, smooth, flat hands to everyone else,
but i’ll see them differently.
i’ll remember a summer saturday morning,
her hands grasping a steaming coffee cup,
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