all the kindness that you can gather

Francis Newton Souza, Head in a Landscape (1958)
--
I found the hairbrush
that my son had left behind
when he left home that last time
and we never saw him again
And in that brush was a bit of his hair
and there with it a bit of my heart
I held it to my face for a moment
and breaking down
I returned it to the drawer
--
James' recipe for a decent day.
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