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Rated: 18+ · Book · Contest Entry · #1912256
a descent into poetry insanity
#931882 added April 1, 2018 at 2:47pm
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Uzbekistan: foreign exchange
I remember when
the world began to blossom,
like a rose unfurling petals
out of the remnants of the
Soviet Union to
sprout old countries
long hidden,
long silent,
long forgotten.

my sister left, then,
for distant places
where letters made
different sounds,
and when she came back,
she brought a new brother.

six months. he sang with us
and weeded our garden
and ate our food
and laughed with our father
and honored our mother
until he left again for home
in a distant country
where ancient cities echo
their lonely history to the dust,
and he stepped into
the beginnings of his own garden—
so far away.

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