by Alison

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The Incident:

While I spread jelly

she choo-choos her chair

onto my sockless big toe!

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Denial:

I howl she giggles

I cry harder she laughs more - 

my big toe turns blue

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Awareness:

when she realizes

she hurt me she cries, “I want

to hurt my toe too!”

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Forgiveness:

Instead we share hugs -

“It was just an acc - i -lent”

she tells me head down.

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by Kelly

Our splintering ash

groans in pain? anger? warning?

It’s bigger than us.

Self-criticism:

Reading another

Armenian genocide book.

Why do I do this?

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…Read more of D. Gale’s haiku.

.h

Convalescence:

Opioid non-dreams

Jarred awake, muscle spasm. Time

for medication.

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…Read more of D. Gale’s haiku.

.h

by Alison

My courageous friend,

I never knew the pain you

felt for all those years.

- insight -

forgive everyone . . .

the greatest teachers of all

inflict the most pain

Read more of Joanne Dibble’s haiku.
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