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This memory

		so infused with joy and touch and safety, 
		is also poignant 
		because these things are 
		such a rare component of our shared history.
		
		
		 








		Boyhood memories of my father 
		tell themselves through his body.
		
		And nearly all have a 
		dark 
		and unsettling resonance.



Typical of my childhood . . .