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Autumn Leaves

volume 4 number 6

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Tiny Fingers

by Jennifer Batson

You don't know
what you did to me.
You don't know
what you caused.
Forced me
to grow up
cutting the little girl
from inside me,
ripping
tiny fingers
gripping
my mind.
You smile
as she cries
inside of me
holding on
to the white lily
in the palm
of the angel
spreading
her wings
to fly
over the grave
of the monsters under the bed.

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