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Findings
(In memory of James Vincent Weber)

Allen M Weber

Guitar picks (the amber mediums he preferred)
discovered while vacuuming under hook-rugs
and between floral couch cushions,
are considered assurance, tokens
to the faithful for whom he once played.

Not known for such
careful cleaning, I am visited
in my sleep. From behind its grief-
tinted windows, he offers flight
in his ’39 Ford
to where the corporal car still rusts
in higher grass and shatters of snow.

There, aware that I can’t bleed
or suffer the cold, he leads
through snarls of feral blackberries—
risen from the ashes of his childhood home—
to uncover the ring that fell from his hand
the summer before I was born.

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