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Autumn Leaves

volume 7 number 3

"We Will Go On"

by Harvest McCampbell

the little child sits
outside the funeral
pulling rocks
from the landscaping
she carefully arranges then in a circle

even this tiny child knows
that healing is about
pulling the circle from the chaos
pulling the circle from the pain
pulling the circle from the loss
pulling the circle of life
from our grief

"We will go on"*


*blessing spoken over the food at a funeral

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