The westering sun now strikes a chain link fence.
Its shadows’ net and trembling fiery beads
impose their pattern upon my children’s
faces, two snapshots tacked up on the corkboard,
which slowly fade (a holiday emulsion),
until at last only their eyes are left,
curious and grave, in them a single question,
beyond the web of time, the speechless gift
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