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Mothballs.

November 20, 2020Nancy Bottafree verse, grief, micropoem, micropoetry, poem, poet, poetry, writing 4 Comments
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She would cry,
but at twelve
she stuffed her eyes
with all the silica packets
and mothballs she could find,
whenever she locked herself
inside her mother’s empty closet.

© Nancy Botta, 2020

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