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I'll read some
other poems from it.

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My mother who also died of
Alzheimer's and complications

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of it during this pandemic,
this poem is for my mother

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and for all of those that we
lost during this pandemic.

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It's called Aubade.

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Can you hear dawn
edging close here?

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Soft light with its
vacuum fingertips

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gripping the bedroom
wall, an understated what?

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Exhilaration?

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Can you hear the
voices, if they can

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be called voices, of toys
scratching in the garden,

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and then a creaky low
husky voice flecked

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with sleep beside you in bed
telling a dream slowly, as

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though in real time?

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And now interrupting
that dream, can you

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make out the voice, if it can
be called a voice of absence

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speaking intimately
to you directly

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using the names of those who are
vulnerable, those who are gone?

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I know you must
hear it feelingly.

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A low vibration in your
bones, for don't you

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find yourself absorbed
in the next moment

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beyond your given life.

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