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Cynthia Holz
July 2, 2013
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my mother left me
four flat rooms
three washloads
two fivefoot boys
one tenfoot man
when she went under

she took her breasts
her rippled hair
she left me
bonestuck
bare

they say i have
my mother's mouth
they say i have
her eyes

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Filed Under: July 2013, Shorthand Tagged With: Cynthia Holz, poem, Shorthand

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