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Sonia Mukherji


Sonia Mukherji

I can not see you,
he said,
there’re moths in my
skin and your eyes
remind me too much,
they call — quiet.

Sundays you hum these sad
songs,
move through walls,
limbs, hair floating
wings beneath my chest-
flapping, flapping.


postcard photograph by Joyce Ravid

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