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To the memory of my parents, Ted and Vera
It is out of the dailiness of life that one is driven into the deepest recesses of the self. Stanley Kunitz Contents 8
How to Foretell a Change in the Weather
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After the Funeral: Cleaning Out the Medicine Cabinet
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Carrie
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For a Friend
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Five P.M.
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In the Basement of the Goodwill Store
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Father
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Goodbye
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Laundry
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Ladder
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Walking at Noon near the Burlington Depot in Lincoln, Nebraska
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At Nightfall
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A Letter
