Madeleine French
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Sunday Hymns
With the scarlet walker a grandson calls “Abuela’s bike,” my mom rolls to a setof padded chairs behind the last…
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Tight
parallel parking spotswhen I’mthe one driving the space between an earnest comment and unwelcome advicebutton-fly jeansleft in the dryer too…
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The Countess of Getty
Portrait of Anne, Countess of ChesterfieldThomas Gainsborough, 1777-78Oil on CanvasJ. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles She steps in frontof the…
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Ice Chips
Do you remember I read to you those cloudy afternoons? You sat intheir big bed like a doll, dark eyelashes…
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Chalk Lines
To ease my mind with craftI marked scratchy-soft linenwith blue chalk to center a monogram that’s stitching now on the…
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Those Kitchen Shears
Those Kitchen Shears Are on the counter—again—I’m starting to wonderif you might haveleft them to say,Cut out a place for…