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"Apparition."

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At the kitchen sink, trimming
the lower blooms from forsythia

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I've cut in the front
garden, starting to set them

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into the low, thick
glass, and my father says,

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Mark is making the house pretty.

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He didn't speak to me the
last five years of his life.

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Why should I be surprised
he'd use the third person now?

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Though he did make sure
I heard him, didn't he?

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He did say my name so
that I could hear him.

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And I think it was in
gentleness, a compliment,

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and not in mockery.

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