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Mary Ellen Shaughan<\/h1>\n

My Sister<\/span><\/h2>\n

Nearly 90 now, she writes to me
\neach week in her distinct scrawl,
\nthe characters looking more and more
\nlike chickadee tracks,
\nthe pen unwilling to comply
\nwith her mind, skipping over
\nwords or omitting the
\ntransition from one story
\nto the next, and I am left
\nwondering if words have
\nrun off the page or are still
\nlying on a table nearly
\ntwo thousand miles away,
\nleaking from the pen onto
\na tablecloth strewn
\nwith breakfast crumbs,
\nodd vowels and consonants,
\nall of which my sister has
\nlikely brushed into the
\npalm of her hand and
\nthrown into the trash.<\/p>\n

Mary Ellen Shaughan<\/strong><\/span> is a native Iowan who now lives in a hotbed of poetry in Western Massachusetts.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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