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Literary Imagination Advance Access published online on July 22, 2008
Literary Imagination, doi:10.1093/litimag/imn050
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To the Sister I Never Had

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"Sleep quiet and smiling and do not hanker/For a perfection that can never come"
                                —MacNeice
Sister that I never had, take the initiative, like Eve, against nature!
If kindness is its own reward then you have been paid, but not repaid
For your love, and because you were never born you are losing your mind
And I don’t know what the best escape for you is other than the gates
Smitten with destruction that lead away from our garden where, when
We . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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