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Spare Buttons

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Spare Buttons
For Paul Daniel Illies

Rummaging through the drawer
For that little parcel of spare buttons
I found, after looking how long?
More than ten years your watch,
Its leather band still curved
Around the memory of your wrist.

Michael Bonacci
Seattle