On Jackie’s Death
by Lionel E. Deimel
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A
but–seven-season life:
A blessing, a curse, a trial?
A lesson.
But which?
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| Jacquelyn
N. Knisely, who was born on February 9, 1996, died on November 3, 1997, after
untold emergency trips to the hospital for unexplained seizures. This poem’s
not-quite-proper haiku form resulted from its being composed while driving.
(Written November 1997.) |
   
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