Fingers slow tonight from
\nextra age, blown into my hands. <\/p>\n
The wind’s extra fierce tonight.
\nSo I sat by the lid of the fire pit
\nafter we switched it off<\/p>\n
in the cold tonight,
\nsat in the dark tonight and watched
\nthe fire pit lid go from
\nhot to not so.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t want to be Mrs. Leary\u2019s Cow tonight, I thought.
\nOr Mrs. Leary. I don\u2019t want to be
\nthe lantern the cow kicked over
\nor Chicago burning after Mrs. Leary
\nwent inside to watch Trevor Noah.<\/p>\n
So I stayed and sat and watched the lid tonight
\nwatched while the wind
\nblew my fingers
\nback to 1871<\/p>\n
a date I plucked from Wikipedia tonight
\nwhere I also learned
\nthe whole Mrs. Leary story was a lie.<\/p>\n
She was real.
\nShe was framed.
\nHeartbroken.<\/p>\n
Innocent of
\neverything but
\nbeing Irish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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