waxing gibbous moon
a last gift
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arms raised
waving goodbye to one year
hello to a new
waxing gibbous moon
a last gift
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arms raised
waving goodbye to one year
hello to a new
Santa’s visit
on Christmas Eve
milk and cookies
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when there were
party dresses that twirled
red lipstick
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roller skater
races around the school
thousands of words
written over one thousand days
in a dozen languages
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midnight snowflakes
blur farthest lamplight
closest star
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another day ends
streetlight turns on routinely
wondrous starlight
bidding hello
the absence forgotten
friendships found again
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reaching
blanket found
warm again
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opens the curtain
to find a full moon
birthday gift glows
petrichor heavy in the air fills our hands