And for a long time
She wanted to tell it to someone
place it in the visible world—
yet nothing she could speak of
nor anything she had been told.
In our residences,
the old-fashioned exile
of unwelcome subjects
to guard against
the wrong arrangement of text.
How to narrate an illness
in fairer climates and
to fair-weather figures.
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How not to.
- by Amy Allara Amy Allara’s website
U.S.
