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Mourning Doves
Keenan O'Meara
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It's been so long since I've heard the songs I love
My mother's voice, chickadees at daybreak
Comforts for which I've grown so familiar
If they will not sing, I will not cry
For that's the work of mourning doves
Love meanders, skewering the abyss
Shelter in minutiae, flighty yet stern
When she flees, I cannot clench my fists
Profanities lay inward
Despair big red skies
The slightest indignity
I yield to the eternal labor
The work of the mourning dove
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If I wake one day, a bed one half empty
To prepare fires for one
I will despair
And I will sing the song of the mourning dove
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