In the Mission hospital, Esther Moses was shown
an undersized infant whose face was shut in sleep,
the cord still belted around her, wrapped in newspaper.
Thina Thandi, the Tamil words that mean Daily News,
mocked Esther’s memory, smelling like ink, first thing
in the morning, the rest of her life. A Sister Gertrude
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