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Her Downturned Mouth

Her downturned mouth
hardly open, fully
open. And her short breaths, 

each one almost the last. 

Though her arms and legs,
her now-small head, lay so firmly 
on the bed, a sense of something --

a birthing slow to form 
in the thin egg of frailty

but forming and soon to leave.
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