night
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The moon could not return what was lost, but beneath it she learned to stop asking the sky to rebuild a life only she could keep living.
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Lucifer becomes the quiet guardian of unfinished poems, walking through the dark as though it were simply another room.
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At three in the morning, the world goes quiet enough for old houses, moonlight, and sleepless women to remember each other’s names.
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At the edge of forgetting, an old house seems to know the name of the woman sitting beneath its porch with a candle against the dark.
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Only after the stroller is parked and the babies finally sleep does the sky release the storm it seemed to be holding for them.
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A desperate two-in-the-morning stroller walk becomes the night a tired mother and her daughters find a little beauty outside the walls.
Between Bruises & Blooms 