And see a caravan . . .
Onto the cool plastic, I lift my right breast. It was my mother’s right breast where her dying started. Don’t, I mutter to myself, don’t be
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Mary Szybist is the author of Incarnadine (Graywolf Press, 2013), winner of the 2013 National Book Award. She teaches at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.
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