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featured poet – Jo Roach

Saying Goodbye

On the doorstep, with
an armful of milk bottles,
rinsed clean for the morning,
I see the doctor out: Dr Dalton
who wears a suit that doesn’t fit,
the black frames of his glasses
hide his eyes, he’s not a handsome man.
I ask “ When is she going to get better? ”
He doesn’t lie and I thank him,
still holding the bottles.
 

Jo Roach

previously published in Entering the Tapestry and Dancing at the Crossroads

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