Settling Down

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Coming here
Settling down
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Homesick
I measured the miles
set the clock's dark hands
with a view of returning to home ground
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I watched others
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go and come back
" j9 b1 p' ?0 j2 \! OWe never did
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resettle in the old country
/ [# x" B' ^' i* f% i, A0 m- vleave our children
and their children
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- s& M. C% a. ~7 }0 D, F* m# M-----Margaret Saunders, in Bridging the Gap, 1990