Time Unfolding

So I wait for you like a lonely house, till I you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache.
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Pablo Neruda

Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.
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L.M. Montgomery

When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.
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Margaret Atwood

Cycles

I told Pa the fella wasn't worth the shells he had wasted. That as the city slickers would say was a faux pas, this reality simply made him madder.
Me...soon after my fifteenth birthday I began to throw up. I watched Ma watch me, her hand on her belly. She never said a word. I wanted her to hold me, baby like.

as her mother did
a girl croons a lullaby
round round we go
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Pd Lietz