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Mother and Child

Lennart Lundh

When you were one
we spent the day at Disneyland.
Your mother, my uncle, and I
took turns watching you
in your stroller
from ride to ride.
That night in your crib
you gazed wide-eyed for an hour,
digesting, I guess, what you’d seen,
and then smiled sweetly in your sleep.
You won’t remember, but
we speak of it still.

It’s early in the fifth
decade since that day.
Your son is back from his war,
just as I was from mine.
His gaze across the dinner table is
hooded, distant.
I hope when he’s a father
he’ll dream of wondrous times,
and fear when he’s a grandfather
he’ll scratch at hidden scars
and remember his bodies
at the end of the day.

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