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Friday, February 20, 2026

(A memory of my father)

Needing sunlight

for his sorcery:

smoke from his pipe:

spirits rising, coiling;

graceful tresses

suspended momentarily

then diffused,

dissipated

just as he, himself,

too soon, was gone.