Poems For My Parents

Taking turns
Letting each other go
Only to learn again
How love grows,
Mother

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love for you
became her care
until she joined you there
grief gives way to fields and wind
and now I hear your voice again

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For Harold and Enola Borgh

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Ellen Grace Olinger
Poems were published in Bell’s Letters.

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I took the photos of tulips from a store in Winter 2016.