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Broke the Reflection Janet Kuypers 05/10/11 I dropped my mother’s ashes down into the water I wanted them to sink down but they just floated there as they broke the reflection of the sun it reminded me of Oahu in two thousand one it was the sixtieth anniversary of the day that lived in infamy when over the U.S.S. Arizona I would only photograph with my mind the flowers I saw dropped from another survivor that floated along the water, breaking the tension of the oil still rising from that sunken battleship my face was ashen as everything, too, still broke the reflection of the sun Copyright © 2011 Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.