“Spiraled” by Marta Dorton

reaching into the maple desk drawer
I pull out a small black notebook
I lift the thick cover to find
mom’s labored scrawls
from her later years
shaky numbers
bulging words
painful letters
list of phone numbers
my brother and mine
the only ones there

-Marta Dorton

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