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Old Woman Outside The Family Dollar Store
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To her


I am an unruly child.


Disturbing her


every morning


as she sweeps


the parking lot


her children


vanished


with the stretch of years...


So now


her sweeping gestures


across the littered asphalt


are for some


extended family:


fleet of foot


out of touch


but still...


in need


of a


mother.


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 Reviews of "Old Woman Outside The Family Dollar Store"
Reviewed by The Smoking Poet
Reviewed on June 24, 2004
Spare and precise, clean and on target.

Reviewed by Tami Ryan
Reviewed on June 14, 2004
I like the feel of this one. Thank you.

Reviewed by J. Allen Wilson
Reviewed on February 23, 2004
Excellent write...enjoyable read.
Allen

Reviewed on February 23, 2004
good one!

Reviewed by Daniel McTaggart
Reviewed on February 23, 2004
Ah, perfecto! I love the feel of this work! Makes me feel like I'm there watching it happen! And even though I already have a mother, I wouldn't be opposed to being this woman's child. That's how this poem makes me feel. Wonderful, wonderful work!!!


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