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Growth Spurt

Cara Losier Chanoine

As a child,
I had an imaginary friend named Edgar.
He wore a black derby hat
and a green checked sport coat.
He was ageless,
but somehow older than I was.

Edgar was braver
that I could have hoped to be at six.
Some days, he went outside naked,
with only his hat perched atop his head.
He philosophized
with the bats in the attic,
and never covered his eyes
during Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

I searched for a year
after he disappeared.
His empty sport coat lay crumpled
on my bedroom floor,
beneath his abandoned hat.

After Edgar left,
I climbed the attic stairs,
my face ghost lit by the flashlight
clutched between my slippery palms.
I stood beneath the peaked roof
and felt the warm whoosh
of bat wings beating air against my face.

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