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They Lived Next Door to Mermaids, Stephanie Valente (for 9/12)

the house was new
untouched by ghosts
or the dead who like
to sing

the weeds were growing,
we took a spade
hooking through, like
a needle

into the hearth of dirt
until he found red again
as we laughed
despite all the water.

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