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Two Women by Alarie Tennille
4/6/2016 0 Comments

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Two Women, by Leonor Fini, 1939.

Two Women

Every “can’t believe SHE
is YOUR sister” spikes acid
through my veins.

Shouldn’t my little sister shadow
me, copy my moves? Not her.
She arrived an adult, no, a presence,
wrapped in a precious, doll-sized body.
As she grew, I faded.

I pretended she wasn’t there,
even while crouching at key holes,
trying to make sense of her ­–
the strut, the here I am! tsunami
when she enters a room.

Surely she can’t wear lit candles
in her hair, but I see them. Others
just see the glow.

Alarie Tennille

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