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all day long 
i feel its weight 
the unworn necklace

     §

     his death notice . . . 
     the get-well card 
     still in my briefcase

          §

          snowbound 
          reading out loud 
          to an empty room
 

Roberta Beary is a finance attorney at a small law firm located at Dupont Circle, in Washington, DC. Her poetry, primarily haiku, has been published in Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Woodnotes, Haiku International and in A New Resonance 2: Emerging Voices in English Language Haiku (Red Moon Press, 2001)(edited by Jim Kacian & Dee Evetts), and in other Red Moon Press anthologies. Beary was born in 1954 in New York City. She currently resides in Bethesda, Maryland.

Roberta Beary:  "all day long" was first published in Pocket Change, and along with, "his death notice" and "snowbound," appears in Jim Kacian & Dee Evetts (eds.), A New Resonance 2:  Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku (Red Moon Press, 2001).