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Contraries -- - Your mother forbids you to leave the yard -- - That year -- - Ghazal of the past -- - Late one Friday afternoon -- - A good idea -- - Primary lessons -- - Trying to get it right -- - Sorry -- - Her best note -- - Cradle and all -- - Washing the breakfast dishes, I decide -- - Villanelle for Gertrude Stein -- - Alterations -- - Mother, washing dishes -- - October song -- - My mother, her mornings -- - Daughter -- - An early spring morning of my mother's decline -- - Selling my mother's house -- - Her porch, her yard -- - October, what the mountains say -- - Still water -- - Something green, for my mother -- - Weather -- - Someone near is dying -- - Prayer -- - Cavities -- - Emergency room -- - Fifty-four days -- - Breath -- - Sweetgum in January
