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Fragments

Deborah Nodler Rosen

We are all Lot’s wife, Orpheus,
we will always turn around
to check, to defy, and if I choose
to see those random stars
not as Orion’s belt but as a line
demanding halt and thus do not
board the train, do not sit
beside the knitting woman
who talks about her son at war
and do not send him the metal charm
that can deflect the shot, he will not be home
to deflect his daughter’s smile that shines
with recognition of her power to defy
so she can insist the voices in her head
are real and lights flickering on the door
a hex that she must destroy and as she
flees her fire that will consume the town
she stops too soon and turns around

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