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Deep Tracks

from Flat Earth by Pursesnatchers

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A life should leave
deep tracks:
ruts where she
went out and back
to get the mail
or move the hose
around the yard;
where she used to
stand before the sink,
a worn-out place;
beneath her hand
the china knobs
rubbed down to
white pastilles;
the switch she
used to feel for
in the dark
almost erased.
Her things should
keep her marks.
A worn-out place;
beneath her hand
The passage
of a life should show;
it should abrade.
And when life stops,
a certain space—
however small —
should be left scarred
by the grand and
damaging parade.
However small —
Things shouldn’t
be so hard.

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from Flat Earth, released January 17, 2024
Lyrics by Kay Ryan, from the poem "Things Shouldn't Be So Hard"
Used by permission of the author

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