Volume One Issue Two
Mel Sarnese
Family Reunion
Dear cousin:
You ask for a gathering of family
in a park
where we can play ball
eat your mother's biscotti
dunked in merlot
and pretend to catch up
with polite conversation
But don't you see,
my uncle's son
we have had many reunions
of late
at funeral homes, and
graveyards
where we could play ball
eat pastries
but are afraid to do so
in front of the dead
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