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Poetry | January/February 2022

Threshold

By Andrea Potos

       Post-partum

That January day I stood
as if iced in 
the greyed winter dawn,
 
behind me, my grandmother
waving goodbye to our world,
nodding yes
 
toward my newborn, waiting,
wordless, for me 
to carry her across. 

1 reply on “Threshold”

April Johnsonsays:
January 21, 2022 at 3:27 pm

beautiful

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