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Leah

From the November 1993 Print Edition

how was it that he would want to earn her , a second wife?desire the way he would shear at my father's sheepevery muscle bent and his neck throbbing a hidden sun from some distant blessingdesire even as he ate the food i would prepare with his fingers held mid air at times the only talking between . . . . Continue Reading »