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Opal Literary
- Sep 15, 2020
- 2 min
Blues by AMANDA Leal
You wake up at 2:00 AM, hungry, the way you did as an infant, when you would claw
at my shirt like a blind animal, moving upon the scent of milk beneath fabric, like the smell of humidity before rain. Your face
is bathed in blues,
the holy light from the television, as though you lay on the bottom of the ocean floor like a relic
that I found, my Easter Island head. I feed you mini muffins
as your eyes roll back, ear pressed to my femoral artery, and I realize, desperately, th
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Opal Literary
- Sep 15, 2020
- 1 min
The Pumpkin by DS Maolalai
she is in bed.
her breath
comes shallowly,
with sounds
of a stuck zipper
opened. my family
uncomfortable. my brother
bringing tea.
her mouth slack. death arrived slowly
like a man collecting bins. her face
not a face – just a place
for holes to go through. the room is warm.
things blink. oxygen
and medical machines. she looks nothing
like anyone's grandmother. eyes
closed, cheeks aged inward –
a pumpkin
on the doorstep of an empty house,
rotten on the second wee
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