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“Your Mother Wears a House Dress” by Joseph O. Legaspi in Poetry Magazine

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CavanKerry Press author Joseph O. Legaspi is featured in the December 2016 issue of Poetry Magazine.

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Read Joseph O. Legaspi’s “Your Mother Wears a House Dress” poem in Poetry Magazine below.

If your house
is a dress
it’ll fit like
Los Angeles
red sun
burning west,
deserts, fields,
for certain it will
drape even
a boy no less
boy in disrepair
wandering from shore

Head over to Poetry Magazine for the full poem.

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