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Aortic Aneurysm


(for my mother)

I like to think
that your heart
    was so full of love
that your veins
    could not hold it.
And as the years went by
even the largest
    stretched
    stretched
    stretched
until it burst open
and your love poured out.


Featured photo by Alexandru Acea on Unsplash.


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