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Family Trip

on March 24th, 2010 in Poems by | Comments Off on Family Trip

I’m walking beside them in Pompeii. We’re tourists of course.  I’m thirteen, big lips, blue blazer, man’s trench coat, pair of beginner balls dangling. Every so often, kneeling to touch the ground, I pick something up — keys, coins, a ticket to the locker my mother keeps her superstitions in.What’re…

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