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Taking Licks

The home office became synonymous with covid. Men built desks, for their wives, with their bare hands. Once again, a hammer and nails, took to a tree. Once again, and perhaps, for such a time as this, a husband found out just how hard at work his wife truly is.

—quote by poet Taking Licks Lily licks my hand with tiny sandpaper tongue as far as it goes fur’s unruffled on desk shelf on tenterhooks, daughter works

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