Ditta Baron Hoeber

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my father is blind.
he has always been blind in one way
now he is blind in another.

if he cannot see me
has any tree fallen in any forest?

I still love you he says.
what have I done that he should love
me in spite of?

all of my murders
have only been in my mind.

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me.  I    
       know

the body
on the bed
           being

attended to by strangers
          and cheerful none the less.

me.
                      I take his hand.

Ditta Baron Hoeber is a Pew-nominated artist (2010) as well as a poet.  Her manuscript Without You was a finalist for the Four Ways Books 2006 Intro Prize.  Her poems have been most recently published in Nthposition, an online publication out of London, and in The American Poetry Review.