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 Grace by Forrest Hamer 
						This air is flooded with her.  I am a boy again, and my motherand I lie on wet grass, laughing.  She startles, turns to
 marigolds at my side, saying beautiful, and I can see the red
 there is in them.
 
 When she would fall into her thoughts, we'd look for what
 distracted her from us.
 
 My mother's gone again as suddenly as ever and, seven months
 after the funeral, I go dancing.  I am becoming grateful.
 Breathing, thinking, marigolds.
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