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  • “somebody or other pretended a revelation”
  • Abigail Lee (bio)

He tells her she is a star with dark hair   like ‘never before’   like ‘only’

& yes sometimes under a dégradé dogwood   late spring an indigo slithers away     but still when he tells her Name the wings of many birds & she does so cruelly   he wants her   like a blade against the tongue

    like swallowing     a stone [End Page 117]

Abigail Lee

Abigail Lee holds an mfa in poetry writing from unc —Greensboro, and she is currently pursuing a doctorate in English Literature at UNC—Chapel Hill. Her work has or will appear in CALYX, Mid-American Review, Barrow Street, the Evansville Review, and other publications.

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