Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.
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You are not a daughter borrowed from some other family, not an extra place setting,
After the wedding flowers browned, a real relationship began: texts about train times,
You came first. Four minutes. That's all it took for you to claim the title of oldest.
I carry a country that fits in no suitcase, that cannot be folded into neat squares.
No one becomes family at the signing of a card. It happens slowly:
There was a version of me only you remembered: the red coat, the cheap apartment,
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