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an impulse to commemorate our anniversary day

August 26

a wedding
      anniversary
of decades
         departed

days of yore
        that are no more
& yet
      as precious
                   still
as dust
    upon
        a butterfly's wings*



*a Hemingway phrase
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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