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Ian McBryde

Genealogy

Mother an empty tenement.

Father the sound rain makes on metal roofs.

Sister a splintered boat washed onto rocks.

Brother the dust in cathedrals.

My wife the light glancing off ice fields.

My children these still and silent rooms I wake to.

 
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