JANET BRICE PARKER
Artist • Poet • Author • Songwriter
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Janet Brice Parker

SHOWER OF GRIEF

I burst out crying in the shower tonight.
Missing Grandaddy who died years ago.
I never really grieved then.
College life and being in love smoothed the lump in my throat.
I was too alive to be concerned with death.
When I stepped out of the shower,
I heard the train.

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