Promises
< 1 When I adopted you and took you away from your Bengal siblings. I promised to love and provide for you until the end. You were wild, like a Tasmanian Devil in a cage. Your tiny…
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A Pantoum for my Niece and Nephew
< 1 Some call Alice and Charlie sensitive.
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Geraldine Drouillard
3 MINThe car lot shimmered like a pastel apparition, rows of soft pinks, mint greens, and baby blues stretching beneath a sky that felt too big for this world. Metallic balloons swayed at the dealership’s entrance,…
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Auntie, the Boobs Look Great!
4 MINAUNTIE, THE BOOBS LOOK GREAT! After hours and hours of scrolling through bridal websites, I slumped in my desk chair, my body shaking with dejection. I was 64 years old, and after 20 years as…
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Diana, Goddess of . . .
10 MINDiana stands at her kitchen sink, gently lifting the steaming corn cobs out of boiling water with silver tongs. Her hands are strong and muscular, a mismatch for her soft, maternal body. If you saw…
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Following My Nose
4 MINFollowing My Nose There’s a certain kind of heat — the drip-down-your-neck-into-your-navel kind of heat — that tickles, sears, and never entirely dries. It leaves salt tracks at the edges of your eyelashes and turns…
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The Start
2 MINIt started with a deafening crash, the crunching and scraping of metal like an aluminum can in a trash compactor. Then came the screaming. “My God, I recognize that car, so.” “I think it’s Lizzie…
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Marching In Time
4 MINThe sight of the raven-haired woman standing in the street at the Metro bus stop interrupts the replay in Christina’s head. The woman wears a vermillion polyester shell, matching pleated skort, nude pantyhose, and white…
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I Hope You Find Your Unicorn
< 1 Pinpoint precision is attention to detail
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Mom’s Mysterious Blue Pumps
2 MINSupple navy blue leather, rounded toe, two-inch heels, jaunty little notched cutout at the top of the foot. Fashionable 1940’s women’s pumps, which somehow made their way across an ocean from post-war Germany to our humble…