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📜 Poetry

New Year Bath

Free Verse Poem by Harris Coverley

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Apr 14, 2023
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new year bath
to bring in the year
to wash off the filth of the old frame
 
and avoid the officiated cheers
smoke and bother
 
the mother rattles at the door
glass on wood:
“your wine!” she cries “your wine!”
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