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Ana Prundaru<\/h2>\n

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four stitches, five, the skin closes like an envelope.<\/p>\n

a mole is lifted from the mouth of scars.<\/p>\n

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don\u2019t speak of shaking on the operating table, only how<\/p>\n

manatees roll over, propeller peeled and silvered with scars.<\/p>\n

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forget your back before skin tags and<\/p>\n

lipomas that bloom like red clover in a snag of scars.<\/p>\n

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instead remember the tourists, one set scattering<\/p>\n

for the next to arrive, tide charts marking scars.<\/p>\n

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press the hollows in the tub and think of harrowing waters<\/p>\n

manatees sink into, how gentle they are under those scars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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