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Home at Last

John Grey

After war,
your mother’s kitchen.
So the cabbage stinks of marshlands.
At least it’s not the putrid stench of body parts.
The simmering spoon
stirs its way toward sauerkraut,
not the next roadside bomb.
And potatoes are mashed hard
but not as hard as marching feet.
There’s pork to be had,
a dead meat without dog-tags.
How succulent, a word that lost its way,
now found again
on well-laid table,
in the midst of family conversation.

It’s peace central.
White curtains,
half holding back the outside,
half letting it in.
Bedrooms upstairs,
all dreams, all the time.
And a parlor with a TV
silent on the news.
A piano in the corner,
not played in years
but such sweet music.

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