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Matthew Gellman
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Blindness
 
A little boy dropped his doll in the street. Nothing about this
was easy. The dress fluttered over the plastic skin. Her parts
were female, composed, face-up. There was dirt all over
her palms. He touched the asphalt. Cars and buses lulled.
When he found her, he held her lashes all the way open.


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Matthew Gellman's poems are featured in Word Riot, DIALOGIST, H.O.W. Journal, Lambda Literary, Two Peach and elsewhere. He is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets prize and a scholarship from the New York State Summer Writer's Institute. He lives in New York and is an MFA candidate at Columbia University.




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