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Shiva

Evenings we sit in the living

room, together. Friday I take

my mother’s slot (noon)

at the beauty salon. Ruth,

who for forty years washed

her hair, washes mine.

We’re all in the desert

together. Your mother

liked the water cold,

Ruth says: news to me.

From a thousand

mouths, our dead assemble.

from EverythingFind more by Andrea Cohen at the library

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