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19. The Yawn
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120 Fiction and Poetry about Family Caregiving 19 The Yawn Rachel Hadas My visiting tall son is sleepy. His sweet gape brings back his father’s yawn. Seeing our lost husband and lost father suddenly conjured up, I laugh. My son frowns. Does he think it’s at him I’m laughing? The cat opens her mouth to mew. The orphaned piano: it yawns, too. Rachel Hadas, “The Yawn,” from The New Yorker (April 9, 2012). Copyright © 2012 by Rachel Hadas. Reprinted with the permission of the author. ...