My mama got eaten by a bear. Sometimes when I’m hanging around in the dumpster down the way I can’t help but be reminded of all those times I’d be hanging from her in dumpsters just like this.

Why’d you leave mama? Why didn’t you leave that bear alone? Why do they got faces like dogs but attitudes like.. well bears?

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. . . dear God
of swallowed moths & grief, dear God of irony; on every city block
still-alive chalk lines begin to move & take to the streets. in every road,
dirt-dusted dead mothers hold their arms out & smile. jumping
out of every car, sons & daughters run into their arms like hurricanes.

Mirage by Kevin Latimer

https://www.flypaperlit.com/poetry/mirage-by-kevin-latimer

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