I am trying to honor her.
Her terms. Her words.
Her voice. Her mountains.
Her wildflowers. Her false
hoods and her fiberglass
pauses on the screen. I am
a child with her, opening
painted windows that were
never closed to begin with.
George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat Review, Moria Poetry Journal, Chronogram Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, The Angle at St. John Fisher College, and 3:16 Journal. George’s blogs, essays and letters have appeared in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Havana Times, South China Morning Post, The Buffalo News, and more.
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