New Bedford, Massachusetts
 
Dear friend Seth,
 
                                       my Father                                                             puts his

hand on your shoulder

                                                            remember

 

You can see                                                             ancient cultures
 
            whales

                        you will have stories
 
Your friend,
 
Adabel

 
 
 

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Kristin LaTour’s full length collection What Will Keep Us Alive, and her most recent chapbook Mend (e-book, free online and in the link) are published by Sundress Publications. Her poems have been published in Rhino, Massachusetts Quarterly, Tinderbox Poetry, Adana, and other journals. She lives in Aurora, IL.