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Ivy Alvarez

 The Write Stuff vol. 7

face

when they met again
the daughter was ten

after the airport kisses had dried
she told her mother

you're almost not my mother
you're like a stranger

oddness grew like a midday moon
pressure built in their ears

her mother found her jellybeans
stopped her mouth with sugar

 

© Ivy Alvarez

 

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