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Steadying
The pillows have thinned on this bed now mine,
a bed as bitter as a desert night
stretched wide enough for grieving.
So instead, because they are needed,
from the warm cupboard’s topmost shelf,
a shelf you could reach without even trying,
I will clamber up and take for myself
these firm pillows used only once before
when, that day on the small white bed
narrowed for dying, they held your head
high, helped you keep your face
turned for a while towards the light
and afterward, tenderly placed,
steadied you there till morning.
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