Remember your mirrorless year, when you got a little fat,
took three lovers and bloomed, saw yourself wide-eyed?Grandpa’s wake: you and your cousins jumped in the pool
in your black dresses. Honored him. Made the living look.
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Remember your mirrorless year, when you got a little fat,
took three lovers and bloomed, saw yourself wide-eyed?Grandpa’s wake: you and your cousins jumped in the pool
in your black dresses. Honored him. Made the living look.
Read it in Poet Lore