- Vol. 01
- Chapter 07
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Image by Alice Connew
Turn
Your back is an empty placethe hard cover of a finished book
your flecked shoulder waiting
for a hand's turn, an imagined smile.
Remembering the day I stood
and watched the hunch of my father's
back disappear
I reach out to turn.