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"Rhode Island" (for my mother) by Amy Miller That summer in Misquamicut, when boys as ripe as roadside corn shot pool in darkened 18-over bars, I found the joy they buried deep in denim straight-front pockets- pipe screens, joints, and all the damp and salty wounded want my navigating hands could plunder. Home and sunburned, bedroom walls my gulag-no diary, no dolls-digging sand and ashes from the trenches of my shoes, I heard her laughing-late, in bed with Dad, no malice in her voice, in love-a girl whose moody boy came home for her with mad martinis, seven jokes to sleep on, sleep itself a garland he laid at her feet. About the Author 
Amy Miller is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist whose writing has appeared in many literary journals. She works as a trivia-book editor in beautiful Ashland, Oregon, where she wrote "Rhode Island" — in a bit of sonnet serendipity — after hearing a GK prompt on The Writer's Almanac: "Write a sonnet for your mother." Her two poetry chapbooks are The Stablehand's Report and The Mechanics of the Rescue. More at www.SaturdayPoets.org/about.htm
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