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The Sapling GirlHow young was I then? Five, or six, or seven?The Sapling Girl
I remember the trees bustling about the house, ripping up carpet as their roots smacked down on tile and mortar. Their leaves stunk of Marlboros and The Grateful Dead. They sewed band patches to their broken bark, their stitches as precise as their stagger.
I do not remember which was the last tree to leave, only that I could never scrub the floors clean of their Jim Beam and sticky sap. Aqua Net clung to the mirrors and my girl-hands smeared the aerosol against the counters until I was sure the only fingerprints
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My freckles are cancer.My freckles are cancer. I tell you this calmly. I am twenty one years old. My freckles are cancer. You look down, drawn to the spoiled canvas of my breasts.My freckles are cancer.
I mouth the word malignant. It breaks on my tongue,
and I clear my throat,
and try again.
Melanoma, I explain. It began with the mole that
grew from a speck to a cloud,
till you kissed it and declared it the sky.
I talk about my options.
My beauty marks have become the unwanted pregnancy fucking everything up.
Your thumbs hide in your pockets. I stumble o
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Pulling you outside after my bath. Saying, "see that? It's not as good as us." Putting a leftover soap bubble on your nose for effect. Almost killing us from dehydration
in the canyon, your water bottle filled with love notes instead of water, and it's 7 miles to get back to the
car and it's 103 degrees. You go to eat your egg roll and
instead there's a plate filled with a million dollars. OK,
that one's impossible, but I thought you would like a
million dollars, and if I had it, I would give it to you,
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I'm ok, finally back to the states and hoping to start writing more. I sent some of my poems to Inhibitions and the new dA magazine, after reading your journal. XD
How's life up north?
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