BLOSSOM Either grief has no shape, sneaks through the cracks like a poisonous gas or I was born forgotten. Nurses fed me milk, scotch- taped...

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FROM VISITATIONS This country has no lamps for its alleys, but I know the streets like the body of a whore, those wounded stones, valleys of...