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*Ruth*
Still, amid the broken stalks of love,
I gleaned memories of her touch,
the way a widow finds grain
in the corners of a foreign field.
Her memory was a kindness
I clutched to my chest,
a perfume lingering
on clothes worn thin by sorrow.