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WEAVE by Roshi Robert Althouse (first poem I ever wrote)
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WEAVE by Roshi Robert Althouse (first poem I ever wrote)

Weave

your grandmother’s tomatoes and your neighbor’s lost eyes

the crack left by the jet plane, now far away and the crystal pattern of ice on the morning window

the lost rhythm of your native tongue and the laughter on the neighborhood stoop

the broken lamp post and the lost key

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