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Submitted to Contest #55
You are finger-flossing green glass blades, sitting by my side, looking at mama ducks and papa ducks near the edge of the water. It’s a late afternoon moment. You shoot your chin towards the ducks in question. “Why don’t they fly away?” I dare a glimpse of the children ducks. Dots barely feathered, little pins and needles lost in a limb. They are little fills in bone holes. Heavy starvelings of flight. I change the subject with movement, turn to lay on my back, head on the spread of your lap, and watch the underside of your chin colle...
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