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Elizabeth Weir lives in Minnesota. She received a 2005 SASE/Jerome grant and she has been a Loft Mentor Series For Poetry honorable mention and a finalist. Her poems most recently have been published in Water~Stone Review, Out of Line Press, Alimentum and in dam-fine Main Channel Voices.

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                On Justin being gone 

In a squirrel scrape in winter woods
beneath granular snow
beneath leaves
matted by frost, down 

in the frozen earth, I find
the perfect absence of an acorn.
Precise clay records the scar
of the stem that fed the acorn's cup. 

Clay records the cup's stippled round,
the clean border of its rim.
From the cup's textured cradle
smooth walls curve 

inwards toward a peak, torn
open when the squirrel ripped
the oak's seed
out of the ground. 

I dig down, through
the ice of memory and grope
to feel a perfect absence, curled
beneath layers of winter.

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