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Dana McKenna & Ben Clark
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Tell me again
 
about the convent
and the seven women
 
with heads wrapped
in silk scarves,
 
who for hours, you watched
pray beneath the shelter
 
of overhanging branches,
how you saw each woman
 
burdened by the shadows
of limbs, marked
 
with fractured
light, and yet,
 
they seemed to be,
of any bodies
 
you’d ever seen, the most
weightless.
 
I’ve heard this story
before, and hold
 
my breath each time,
as you pause
 
outside an
unfamiliar fence,
 
and for at least
one more day,
 
decide you won’t go
through with it.




Dana McKenna and Ben Clark live, work, and write in Chicago, Illinois.




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