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Graduation Day

Marilyn Flower

This is the stadium,
high in these gentle hills,
where your dad and I were
graduated from college.
This is the campus where
in married student housing,
we fed you wax Brussels sprouts
we’d formed from melted candles.
You bit, trusting two year old, wept
at your first recognized betrayal.
You don’t remember the night
your dad and I stood screaming
in the kitchen. You crashed
from his shoulders onto the concrete floor,
your head hit, we snatched you up,
crying, crying, kept you awake
until we were sure there was no coma.
This is the university you chose to attend,
your only choice, you say, since the day
you and I rolled down the snowy hills to home.

You lurch onto the field with your class,
drunk, rowdy, and pure. From high
in the stands on this cold June morning,
I hear the band strike up.
You march forward,
radiant in your cap and gown.

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