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Un-Cry Me
By: Joe Barca
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your poem
gently broke me
all the tears
pent up inside
stalagmites
and stalactites
in the cave
of my unconscious
your words
a shock of sparrows
relentless
echo through me
the ghosts of loss
that haunt us
a father
and a daughter
the river
and the water