GUILT

by Pat M. Kuras

She would ask me

if it was okay

to add brandy

to her ice cream.

Maple walnut,

in the little blue bowl,

part of the set

we bought in Chinatown.

Brandy as ice cream syrup.

Thirty years later,

she still won't

acknowledge her alcoholism.

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Pat M Kuras has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. She has

a new poem in the upcoming anthology, Dark Ink (Moon Tide Press). Her books, Hope: Newfound Clarity (2015) and Insomniac Bliss (2017) are available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.