In The 3-By-3 Photograph

The ceramic walls and ceilings

Gleam 1950s pink Tamarisk

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The appliances whiter than I remember

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My father blurry, but smiling

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My mother slightly behind

------and reaching

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I am alive

but completely hidden

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Beneath the Twister dots

My mother blouses in

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A cake with nineteen candles

flickers in the foreground

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A yellow-ribboned gift waits

For my father

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I use a magnifying glass to see

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The orange and blue pyramid

On Father's work shirt

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Could say Angel's Citgo

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Father is holding a May 1964

Copy of Look Magazine

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Mother and child on the cover

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TRAVEL US

Three

American

Journeys

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On Father's fourth finger someone

Has placed a wedding ring