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Maria Takolander

Poetry

Mar/Apr 2017

Cruel

By Maria Takolander

A poem addressed to David McCooey   This time it is you, swaddled in bandages and sheets,     your mouth discreetly crossed with tape     where a corrugated hose runs deep,    feeding you […]