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Homecoming
Patrick Cotter
The returned conscript dances with his mother,
unscathed body crowned by his beaming smile;
her yellow-ribboned hair the only bright thing
on her angled, wistful head. He still has all his mother.
She has just one of three sons. She knows it’s good
he still has two legs to kick with, two hands to scoop
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