Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.
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Here is a wish for the hallway: shoes that come home safely. For the kitchen:
The usher arrives before music, checks the aisle for anything that might catch a cane,
She keeps one place beside her without guarding it. A cousin sits there at Easter.
There is a jacket on my chair that doesn't belong to me, and this is how you know
Saturday starts with silence, slow and soft, sheets still warm from sleeping in.
Tonight the world gives us permission to be something else.
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