Portrait of a Child with Fruit and Rot
A woman wakes to a bed of cold sun, a new bruise
on her left breast, this daybreak
too green & silent.
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Last night—liquor’s rot in his breath. But she’s tired. Her back bends after standing all day cleaning rooms for strangers, plucking sour bedsheets, folding linens over singles & doubles, she folds
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