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321 questioning Janice H. Brazil She starts with anger. Toys with it, plays with each letter as though it were part of an elaborate puzzle. She stands the A on its head and swings it around the N until so dizzy. She falls on the G, smothering the E—R. Determinedly she connects the letters again until she feels their power. But she needs to know if their power is her power. Or whether, it’s a game. A ritual. Or the rites of passage a woman bleeds through in order to feel. So she begins again, first with the A. Reprinted from Outerbridge (NY: The College of Staten Island) No. 25, 1994. ...

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