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J e n n i f e r   M a r t e l l i

 

Some Girls 

 

The sun should rise any minute. 

Some girls pray for sleep to come or more 

of anything. They 

 

will sit by the kitchen window and see 

the oak: at five, they see its coat 

of dead leaves, by seven, its coat of sparrows. 

 

 

 

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