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Requiescat en pace

Victor P. Gendrano


(For my wife Lucy Gendrano
March 4, 1930 - August 14, 2003

the get-well balloon lies inert
amidst the wilting flowers

as her confessor dispenses
the communion and last rites

and the full moon leaves its glow
disappearing in final flight

Published in LYNX:
A journal for linking poets,
Vol. XVIII, No. 3, October 2003

For comments, email me at vgendrano@yahoo.com

Uploaded 26 September 2003.
Copyright © 2003 Victor P. Gendrano.
All rights reserved.

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