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Your three month old
prescient face
amidst the semi-lit dust
afloat in the room,
your pointer
finger looking
out for the slowest
floater to touch
and I’m still
waiting for you
outside some card shop
running the car
to keep warm
on your fifteenth birthday.
Redbuds and dogwoods
telling me you’ll be soon.
Heidi Johannesen Poon is the author of the chapbook The Good News of the Ground, for which she won the Poetry Society of America’s Chapbook Fellowship. She has received fellowships from Brown University and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, among others.
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