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Elizabeth Rees

Poetry

Summer 1991

Unfinished Grief

By Elizabeth Rees

A woman holds her weepingbraids, for hair is also water falling. One womanmourning is an unripe thicket. A woman hisses at shadowshiding in the fog. Many women are an army,tumbling […]