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“Birds of Prey” and “San Pedro, Los Angeles County”

In Issue 32 by Angela Gaito-Lagnese

I was nine. My parents came home hollow from the hospital.
My mother sobbed in wild animal cries, violent splotches
of purple spread from under her skin, her chest
her cheekbones tainted; my father silent
slumped in his easy chair, his neck gray-yellow
half of his face buried in clenched raw knuckles.

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