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Jeff Weddle

And So It Goes Naked and forgetting the safety of sheets she stands by a dirty window of dead flies and open curtains gazing at the half-empty parking lot. A young man walking to his car fails to notice her accidental gift of beauty his mind caught on the one he has abandoned in a different room while her puzzled lover asks again why she has left the bed and the young man starts his car and pulls away with no idea where the night will take him and she says aloud she is not sure why she was ever there at all. Visiting Home  On the church steps with grey and purple clouds and the night songs of animals cars going somewhere with their lights and noise fireflies and a man running as my father back at the house is caught in a failing body barely able to move in his ancient black recliner and my mother watches him for signs of need but seeing none settles on cleaning his denture in this last bit of smoke when we are all sti...