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Inauguration Day

2/20/2017

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I woke to a plaster-covered floor
as if my ceiling had given up on
holding itself, this house, together.
I stepped through the mess to dress
and do my best to live the day, as if
it were any other, as if my home
hadn't just fallen around me.

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Christine Brandel is a writer and photographer. Her book A Wife is a Hope Chest will appear in 2017 as the first full-length collection in the Mineral Point Poetry Series from Brain Mill Press. She also writes a column on comedy for PopMatters and rights the world's wrongs via her character, Miss Agatha Whitt-Wellington, at Everyone Needs An Algonquin. More of her work can be found here. 

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Sue Bratton link
2/21/2017 07:41:49 am

That about says it all! Good use of words to express very familiar feelings.

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PSE Scotland link
2/3/2021 04:57:18 pm

Hi thanks for posting this

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    Gravel is a literary journal edited by students of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Arkansas at Monticello.

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