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trying all day
to remember that feeling
when you first meet someone
how a match
gets struck
on a rock
how you carry that fire
through each little task
and all day
the people you pass
notice the lights on
notice someone is home.
Kay Cosgrove is the author of ANYBODY HOME? (Blue Edge Books 2023) and the recipient of awards from The Academy of American Poets, Inprint Houston, and The Westchester Review. Her poetry has appeared in The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, The Florida Review and The American Poetry Review, among other journals.