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The Sealey Challenge Day 18

Richard Jeffrey Newman

by Richard Jeffrey Newman

The Sealey Challenge Day 18

The Sealey Challenge Day 18

I cut it off myself
both times I married, veiled
the attentive temples, the long spine.
To spite, to tease, to be and not be his
look-alike, his twin. I hid the woman in his heart
so long I had forgotten. Face
I’m forever about to know.

—from “Body,” in Pastoral Jazz, Olga Broumas’ third book

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