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"... brevity is the soul of wit ..."
- William Shakespeare

Sherry Beasley


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Barn-raising

Even after the surgery
my dad dressed
in his dark blue worksuit,
waved his salt-and-pepper hair with water
and walked over the hill to the barn
where the men were working
to supervise, the broken tools
of his hands hanging at his sides.