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Honorable Mention
The Family
Don Schaeffer

First the tyke
jumped off the step into the world
and waddled to the sidewalk.
Then the older one strode
after his younger brother.
Finally the grandma followed
while the children were halfway down
the way to school.

They all had the same
round, reddened apple faces.
Their lines obviously
immigrated from the
damp hills of northern England.
Their mouths
bent in a special way
and I could see
even on the little one,
the tiny patch of bluish skin
above the lips that would
eventually turn to mustache.

When they came
out of their house,
a burst of steam followed,
fragrant with the
perfumes of nesting creatures
that stained their hearts.

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