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CHILD

 

He is your baby.  Or your daughter’s or granddaughter’s.  He cannot speak but has begun to crawl.  Before long he will be an importunate child, charging at you with questions, testing his will or showing it under control.

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(For full text see the Kindle ebook The Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)

  

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