Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.
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The usher arrives before music, checks the aisle for anything that might catch a cane,
The bulletin says family and friends, so the doors must mean it. Make room for the aunt who raised him,
She keeps one place beside her without guarding it. A cousin sits there at Easter.
Before the first hymn, we carry chairs from the hall. One leg wobbles.
Sunday morning. Before the sermon. Before the hymns and the handshakes.
Someone left a coat on the back pew, navy wool, one loose button,
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