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Autumn 1991 • Vol. XIII No. 4 • Poetry |

Dolls

By Allison Joseph

        for Charmaine

Don’t know where you are now,
whether you have children

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Allison Joseph lives, writes, and teaches in Carbondale, Illinois, where she's been on the creative writing faculty of Southern Illinois University since 1994. Her most recent books include My Father's Kites (Steel Toe Books), Trace Particles (Backbone Press), and Little Epiphanies (Imaginary Friend Press). A 1988 graduate of Kenyon College, this poem was her among her first published poems.

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