Laughing Boy

A laughing boy
he was our own
our one and only own child
so beloved
so serious a child so easily traumatized
so insular and difficult
so beloved
his mother
different and difficult herself
brought him forward
into crazy
and left him.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010

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