A Small Life By: Sonja Benskin Mesher

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:: wading in treacle ::

brown swollen water here, water rooted black trees, stranded sheep, i gloried in the medieval painting, the wind lifting my hair, then the day slowed, and dragged and wearied.

I drew the monkey, and took myself upstairs to sleep to rid myself of the number, and slept as a child.

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