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Requiem Twenty-Five Years Later
In memory of my daughter Jessica (May 18, 1974–May 24, 1996)
Jane Ellen Glasser


Again and again I hear the crunch of metal,
the spray of fractured glass, the blasted crack
of the giant oak, eviscerated, spilling sap.
 
What flew from her mouth I can only guess–
a gasped screech as her head struck the window 
and her neck broke easy as twigs in a storm.
 
Or was she silent in those seconds of unknowing
what would pass. There was no time for tears
so she stored them in the reliquary of my heart.
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