FREDRIC HILDEBRAND POETRY
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Helen

“Don’t you miss out on bein’ alive,” 
my southern grandmother said,

her gnarled fingers holding old moments:
the lost family farm, early widowhood,

dead children, and her one-room life
at a hundred years in her eyes like 

the light of an uncertain candle. 

Published in One Sentence Poems (Right-Hand Pointing), February 5, 2020

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