Victoria Waters
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   Unfinished Symphonies



I write because I don't play with playdough
It's pretty simple really
A black keeper used to show me how to
make blue squares with my thumb and forefinger

They also taught me how to make a birds' nest
I don't forget those things

like when I was young.

I watch my grandson growing
learning
Become his own person, adjusting
stretching, amusing
confusing perplexing almost

I reside here
I listen to unfinished symphonies
somewhere
until I can't

not what then
but where