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Today the ants are busy
beside my front steps, weaving
in and out of the hill they’re building.
I watch them emerge and—

like everything I’ve forgotten—disappear
into the subterranean, a world
made by displacement. In the cemetery
last June, I circled, lost—

weeds and grass grown up all around—
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of which she will be part,
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their industry, this reminder of what
I haven’t done. Even now,
the mound is a blister on my heart,
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