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Take Care

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May 10, 2022
Painting of a father and daughter walking hand in hand
Father and Daughter, Miriam Schapiro, 1997

Matthew Nisinson (he/him) is a proud New Yorker living in…

And I am an old man remembering, though I do not yet remember growing so old. Perhaps I am boring you in recitation, repeated ruts in my thoughts’ well-worn tracks. Perhaps I am wondering what went wrong? That grin lost to me, ground out. Perhaps knowing why, I am still unable to mend what I broke. But all that is ahead of me now, the hill dips lower and you have found a good stone for me. You place it in my palm, rough, mottled, a good weighty feel. I accept as I do and will do. It goes in my pocket, another talisman.
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Matthew Nisinson (he/him) is a proud New Yorker living in Queens, NY with his wife and daughter and their two cats. He studied Latin at Vassar College and earned a J.D. from The George Washington University Law School. Each summer he grows chili peppers. By day he is a bureaucrat. His poetry has or will appear in Ayaskala, The Hyacinth Review and en*gendered. You can find him on Instagram @lepidum_novum_libellum and on Twitter @mnisinson.

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