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grows visible. The woman who lived there before me allowed it all run wild. I struggle to reclaim the raised beds, the network of pathways.

And I have coaxed a gravid stray with milk-soaked bread: each day she comes closer. But sky when it speaks tells me I am not myself, not myself at all.

(From Song of the Midnight Fox (Doghouse Books) )

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