Footnote: Maxie

We were children, then,

all less than ten years old.  You

were four.  We could not

know your dark bruises were not

accidents, but parental.

 

Kyakuchuu

 

[jlc]

Author's Notes/Comments: 

The memory of Maxie haunts me to this day.  When his family moved away, we never knew what happened to him.

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The voiceless child...'be

The voiceless child...'be seen and not heard'....some things too dangerous to be spoken.


...and he asked her, "do you write poetry? Because I feel as if I am the ink that flows from your quill."

"No", she replied, "but I have experienced it. "

 

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thanks

Thanks for the comment.  And I corrected the stupid typo in the poem as well.


Starward-Led [in Chrismation, Januarius]