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Scar in the Mirror

Anne Higgins

Emmitsburg, USA


Although the rain lay like a canal
in the creases of the windowsill,
more of it pouring in, filling every crevice
of the screen,
dripping down the lip's ledge to the floor,
the woman welcomed the wet of it
to her house.
she said, There's too much danger in the sun.
It's lied to me for years, she said,
while it crept up and turned its key in my face.



Anne Higgins




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