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When she was a girl in bed with mumps
or a cold or the chicken pox she'd listen
for the garbage truck, watch
her marbles bump the tabletop,
and drift, a supple stretching-out—
a red balloon let out full far—
she bathed in the warmth of a mind full far
from any thought of school or play,
she'd never know the content of this day.