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81 Pearl Reaching​with​eyes,​they​covered​her​as​a​girl, leaving​a​grain​of​gaze,​that​irritant​stare women​must​cover​everywhere,​like​pearl. Even​alone​in​her​own​room,​she​curled back​from​the​windows​gleaming​with​their​glare. Reaching​with​eyes,​they​covered​her,​as​a​girl, and​stopped​her​eyes​as​their​long​look​unfurled, taking​her​in​as​if​she​belonged​there, a​woman,​covered​everywhere,​with​pearls draping​her​throat.​And​then​she​learned​to​whirl before​the​mirror,​pierce​her​ears,​and​twine​her​hair. Reaching​with​eyes,​they​covered​her,​as​a​girl covers​herself​and​hunches​to​a​coil spiraling​from​the​voyeur.​But​beware: women​cover​everything,​like​pearls orbed​into​life.​A​living​ocean​swirls; we​reach​through​it​to​spiral​everywhere. Reaching​with​eyes,​they​covered,​in​the​girl, what​the​woman​covers:​everything,​like​pearl. ...

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