Xochilt O'Leary Poems

erasure marks make imperfect
the ledger, with expenditures
like rings on trees, each significant
of epochs, births, deaths of loved ones, deaths
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He stamped her heart with 'payment received'
and he tossed her out like yesterdays garbarge,
fishbones and unmentionable's, the stuff nightmares
don't even want. Once she was as fresh as a clean sheet of xerox paper, then blacked, like an old negro spiritual,
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