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widow, anew
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250 the widows’ handbook widow, anew Elizabeth Page Roberts i have given away the fear of fear left strewn across the wooden floor planks of your room ancient questions outgrown musings of emptiness and futile wishing i have molted leaving behind a tough if iridescent shell once insistently made of strength for the sake of strength now my nakedness shifts into an open light onto a steady path a broad levity a precious range of ready now my strength is the letting go the falling the grieving of grief’s departure hints of life in these hard fierce bones coping (more or less) 251 now strength is coiled in memory and propelled by a remade heart ...