Carol & Christian
When the girls bring up your names
Or tell people they have more sisters
Always at inconvenient intervals
I look into confused faces
And fake a smile
“Yes, two in Heaven”
“Died in utero”
I’m sure this is just making their day –
I feel it rising
The guttural howl
But I uncomfortably laugh
And suppress it for now
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Stab to the heart!
always at inconvenient . . . kids’ timing always uncanny