“My Childhood," "My Twilight," and "My Death" by Le Hinton
APRIL 2025


My Childhood
We lived in the house with no bathroom.
How
Mom
cooked
days.
How
Dad
worked
nights.
How
with no bathroom in the house, we lived.
---
My Twilight
We write in this house with 3 bathrooms.
Now
cancer
lives
here.
Now
words
hold
love.
Now,
with 3 bathrooms, we write in this house.
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My Death
You will grieve in this room with 1 bathroom.
Know
that
memories
survive.
Know
that
love
remains.
Know,
with 1 bathroom, you will grieve in this room.
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4/10/2025
Le Hinton has published seven poetry collections including Elegies for an Empire (Iris G. Press, 2023). His work has been widely published and can be found in Pleiades, The Best American Poetry 2014, The Progressive, and outside Penn Medicine Stadium in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, incorporated into Derek Parker’s sculpture Common Thread.