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sour_green_apples
mourninglight the newborn
wrapped in old cotton rags
with icy sour green apple eyes, and pale pale skin.
she sighed, a baby sigh, a soft sigh
and waited for the mother who could only stomach those sour green apples through the entire 9 months of her load, her ordeal, her gift.
the fruit of her eyes,
the mother who would never come
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