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Recorded Reading (1:06): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rw92yo072v9hrv9ffrq1p/the-sisters-come-together.wav?rlkey=baamcugaw18v0k12tr2p8qbj5&dl=0

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the sisters come together

back in days we
hearken from
in tale and song
when life go wrong

the sisters come
together

accident
injury
childbirth
weather

birds of many a
different feather

you could find
sighted, blind
old and young
thereamong

suddenly
they appear
come from far
come from near
they are here
quietly

hardly notice
make the poultice
brew the tea
healing be
get no thinner —
made your dinner

help with weaving
for the grieving
mending, stitcin’
clean the kitchen

carpet beat
wash the sheet
feed the child
manner mild

in that day
from here we see,
who chronically
lonely
be,

it’s fair to say

they may
have had themselves
a better way

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This poet is physically disabled. Public housing being insufficient to her medical and creative needs, she is presently living, in order to continue working, in her minivan, publishing all of her works using one thumb on the touch screen of her smartphone, surviving at an income of a fraction of her nation’s poverty level. She would treasure any donation you might care to offer ~ http://www.UgiftABLE.com ● #72D-31S.

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