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A Story For Rose On The Midnight Flight To Boston

...turn up their eyes at me. And I remember Betsy's 
story, the April night of the civilian air crash 
and her sudden name misspelled in the evening paper, 
the interior of shock and the paper gone in the trash 
ten years now. She used the return ticket I gave her. 
This was the rude kill of her; two planes cracking 
in mid-air over Washington, like blind birds. 
And the picking up afterwards, the morticians tracking 
bodies in the Potomac and piecing them like boards 
to make a...Read more of this...

by Sexton, Anne

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