Contributor: Susan Sweetland Garay
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Though I have heard it
a thousand times
I am still surprised
by the miraculous sound
of her voice.
She babbles before
she falls asleep,
telling me stories
from her day and
kicking her legs joyfully
as though running some
terrific race.
She falls asleep
suddenly and with
a fist full of my hair.
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Born and raised in Portland Oregon, Susan Sweetland Garay currently lives in the Willamette Valley with her husband and daughter where she works in the vineyard industry. She has had poetry and photography published in a variety of journals, on line and in print, and her first full length poetry collection was published in 2013.
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