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Inspiration for the Spirit

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Storm

by Clementine von Radics

house in the rainThe week
after I found
another woman’s fingerprints
all over my home.

After the storm
of begging
and bended knees
had passed.

a tornado hit the coast of Oregon.

The wind howling
like it had something to grieve.

Back home, a tree branch
crashed through my mother’s window.
and isn’t that how
it always goes?

You spend years building a home
just to watch it destroyed in seconds.

In the time it takes to say

I’m sorry, I didn’t want you to
find out
like this,
but she loves me.

Copyright © 2019 Clementine von Radics • Instagram | Facebook • Selection is from In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive (2019).

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