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Statements Made on the Way to the Grave
by Matt Henriksen

 

If I could reach catch
the first glass I dropped as a child,
which smashed on the kitchen tiles,
and hold the intact object in my hand,

studying the intricacy of its painted flowers,
its curling vines, hearing its lip clink against my teeth
and tasting the water as it was then,
I would not sit here, drinking.

 

 

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