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By Joette Giorgis
children grown—
dust accumulates
on half the kitchen table


Poem copyright ©2009 by Joette Giorgis and reprinted from Modern Haiku, Vol. 40.1, Winter-Spring 2009, by permission of Joette Giorgis and the publisher.
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Joette Giorgis lives in Pennsylvania. Her poetry has been published in former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser's column, "American Life in Poetry."

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