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Women Becoming Poems:
Shawn Newell

                 

Can You Hear This?

I cannot tell you
about our love
grown from friendship
handmade and original
like the duvet covers
we sewed years ago
together to last
and blanket us
from our mother's suspicions
aid in our own hiding.

I cannot tell you
missing buttons, thin borders
her gray hair and my wrinkles at 25
are what's left
from a year of fear
and holding hands
in the car, in the dark
a year of living
under a heavy sky
of parental conditions
and covering children's ears
with safe language
and two duvet covers
on separate beds.


November 15, 1999

Copyright © 2000 Shawn Newell.

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