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This poem is called
Childhood's Den

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and it's actually a reflection
on when I was five years old

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and the night my sister was born
which you might not otherwise

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gather.

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Waking into excited
night, I seek comfort

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in the monthly magazines
and overstuffed chair.

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Staring into faces grown old, I
wonder what will be disclosed.

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The bookshelves,
ceiling high in the dark

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are steadied by the hard
backed modern library collected

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as a shield against time.

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Framed by the window
of their extinction,

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a wooden stand supports
an American dictionary

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opened eternally to marquee

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Impressionist print and
Flemish medieval woodcut

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found at a flea market sale
serve as a European museum

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for young eyes.

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How enticing this comfortable
room created to pay our bills

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and balance every Saturday.

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Home is our sacred space, eaves
protecting against the coming

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summer storm.

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Adobe wall shoulder
high divides us

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from our neighbors mysteries.

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Here is borne all adventure
my small heart needs.

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Palming, , catching aiming
imagined spheres across a small

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corner and scribbling the first
aspirations of my fictional

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life.

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