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Punctuation

Janet Doggett

I had a friend once tell me
that in the quiet moments she liked to
push her eyelashes into her eye with a finger,
just until it hurt a bit and her eye teared up.
She had few such moments then with
three perfect little girls and a doting husband,
All those tiny white socks to wash
and nightly routines. She was always smiling.
But then one time she mentioned that as a child
Her father disappeared. One day he was alive
for his three perfect daughters;
the next he was found dead.
I don’t know all of the particulars ...
I do know the Devil is in the details.
He sits on the tip of a makeshift eyelash curler
that points as sharp as a whittled stick
into the soft egg-like white of one perfect woman’s eye
that has seen far too much.

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