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Wall, Emily

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 Saturday Creek   Drinking French press coffee with friends at a wooden table  our children outside in pajamas  racing away the night, growing hungry.  Feeding them homemade muffins and oatmeal, the clamor and song  of their hunger.  Turning the kerosene stove up to catch the cold they’ve brought in  as all four adults shout, once again, close the door!  I think this day will be the one I reach for the day I learn I’m going to die.  It must come  sometime, and when it does, I think I’ll hurt not for the loss of life, but for the loss  of days.  For the taste of coffee grounds on my tongue, as the sun rises in February  along the dark river. The comfortable way my feet rest on the grate of the kerosene stove.  The hungry child who comes to me, and takes the warm muffin from my hand.     Wall, Emily, “Saturday Creek” Cirque 7, 2 (2016): 106.  

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