Settling Down

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Coming here
Settling down
was easier for you
Homesick
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  D3 I" h, i. o, B0 Hset the clock's dark hands
with a view of returning to home ground

' p: y- P" b. I  |Days inched into years
I watched others
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$ ]0 K5 G( _4 l, E9 ?) C' @* ]go and come back
* F: y2 N% I0 L% z) `We never did
5 a" }- H2 D2 O$ Onor can we now
resettle in the old country
leave our children
# }3 g! ~0 O$ D4 Iand their children
settled down in theirs
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9 d$ M/ X) k6 N; l5 {% X% K) h-----Margaret Saunders, in Bridging the Gap, 1990