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Esmé van Aerden
Poems
Mar 2014
Doesn't it.
seven o’clock and your mother makes you tea
she says sit down
the sky looks lovely today
doesn’t it?
doesn’t it
she says this very quietly,
tapping her red fingernails
against the white table
and you know she has
something important to tell
you
you know this because she’s gotten
out her finest china set, the one with
the blue flowers painted like beads
and you know she’s about to say
something awful and you look at
the sky and there it comes
your father is leaving
and all you think is how the sky looks
lovely
doesn’t it
#love
#anger
#separation
#divorce
#simple
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Esmé van Aerden
Seattle
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