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"Secrets"

A poem by Risa Denenberg

At forty, she still twirls
locks of hair, drags
nails along the fault lines
of her breasts, pierces
through surrender, embraces
(as if still in trance)
the guile that marks the
face of memory fragments
while pleading soberly:
This isn't really happening.

 

 


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