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once ruffle-skirted vanity table where I primped at thirteen, opening drawers to a private chaos of eyeshadows lavender teal sky-blue, swarms of hair pins pony tail fasteners, stashes of powders, colonies of tiny lipsticks (p.39)

Barbara Blatner , in The Still Position: A Verse Memoir of My Mother's Death
poetry death mother death-and-dying death-of-a-loved-one cancer memoir verse poetry-quotes mother-and-son death-and-sickness mother-and-daughter mother-and-child colon-cancer death-at-home