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Jennifer O’Grady

Poetry

Spring 1997

Stillborn

By Jennifer O’Grady

How strange that I told you, after coming in from play, how I wanted a sister, had always wanted a sister, the way children do.   That morning, driving home, the […]

Poetry

Spring 1997

White

By Jennifer O’Grady

To be a reflection of so many elements each true, each deep, each startlingly clear   tuberose, paperwhites, baby's breath   small clouds straying across the sky to be so overwhelmingly full […]