Tag: folding clothes
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A Proper Fold
A Proper Fold emerged from my ongoing exploration of ritual as both inheritance and resistance. I wanted to write a poem that honored the quiet violence of conformity—how grief, gender, and legacy get folded into gesture. The speaker is a 4-F child shaped by military precision and familial duty, yet excluded from the honors that…
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Fold It Away, My Child
Good mothers make their children fold and put away all clothes, even hers after death. Bad mothers make sure they always wear them for the rest of their lives.