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by Joy
Rated: 18+ · Book · Drama · #1253431
Poetry in April -- in celebration
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#848130 added April 27, 2015 at 11:57am
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My Mother’s Hat
knotted and dark
a veiled pillbox
with a ruthless tilt
fluttering its fishnet
over her pale face
and I, a vanquished sardine
caught from
my ocean of dreams,
learned from that hat
how to pull policy
for a pardon.

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Prompt: a hat
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