Bad Daughter
by Sarah Gorham
ISBN: 978-1-935536-16-1
paper, 67 pages, $14.95
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ICE STORM
Hear it fall, laughter from a train. Under the transparent tapping, crawl into a hollow
sleep. First comes a dream
of cocktail banter. Then crazy
clappers in a grange hall.
It makes her sad, this uncalled for enthusiasm. Answers unlink
and veer from their questions.
Deer blink under the dangerous wires. Now is not the time to hope
in the smoke of night, in deep
dying boughs. She cannot feel her hands nor find her serious throat.
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