Comforters

In the still kitchen,
dishes, bowls, glasses, mugs, boards
are fraternizing.

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Hot alphabet soup, 
warm quilt made of sentences.
To read on cold nights.

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Kept them company 
when fell ill and quarantined.
Amputee horseman.

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Embroidered face mask.
Protection, decoration,
as are banners, flags.

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Book pages, tree leaves,
as experience exhibits.
Fragile, powerful.

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Old private journals.
Joys and hurts retold, relived.
Longing, and learning.

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Notes and diaries.
Sad and happy happenings’
printed evidence.

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Letters, cards, photos,
tokens, keepsakes, souvenirs
whisper ‘I was here.’

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In morning’s silence,
books, journal, pen, a candle,     
hot tea, inviting.