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For the lumber I\u2019ve abandoned. the baby blue spruce dad planted in the front yard<\/p>\n the chip in the honeycomb tile powder room floor<\/p>\n the blood stain engrained butcher block countertops<\/p>\n the slamming screen door and separating patio stone weeds<\/p>\n the dog and the bone buried out back<\/p>\n the purple hall walls who saw it all go down<\/p>\n the swing set, the sandbox, the security, the sacrifice<\/p>\n scraped knees, peeling noses, filthy finger nails, asphalt feet<\/p>\n that flying saucer washer and perennial flower pot graveyard<\/p>\n I wonder if the hollyhocks ever bloomed?<\/em><\/p>\n a chapel, a battleground, a nursery, a morgue<\/p>\n trick-or-treat, trim-the-tree, tradition-birthplace-legacy<\/p>\n lines etched in the doorframe beneath peeling paint veins<\/p>\n a serendipitous safe haven with mice in the attic<\/p>\n a husband, a wife, a family\u2019s shared life<\/p>\n years of tears of joy and strife<\/p>\n left behind to remind Amanda Layne For the lumber I\u2019ve abandoned. Don\u2019t forget to pack: the baby blue spruce dad planted in the front yard the chip in the honeycomb tile powder room floor the blood stain engrained butcher block countertops the slamming screen door and separating patio stone weeds the dog and the bone buried out back […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-374","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/374\/revisions\/376"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/strong>Don\u2019t forget to pack:<\/p>\n
\nus of what we\u2019re all made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"