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My mother, our first night in New York,
pointed to a pillowcase on my hotel bed.
There was a smile in it, she said, and indeed
there was, made by some folds in the fabric.
A sign, she said, that our life in this new city
would work out. Did it work out?
A little complicated, that. But this night,
the smile visits me.
Richard W. Halperin's poetry collections are published by Salmon/Cliffs of Moher (four) and by Lapwing/Belfast (sixteen). His work is part of University College Dublin's Irish Poetry Reading Archive. In 2023, Salmon will bring out a Selected and New volume, drawing upon all twenty books and including 25+ new poems.
