lets
lets
touch
worry
remove
memory
method
Jasmine
radio
Connecticut
Reach
contained
domesticity
children
here
boat
key
death
outside
the mere
tricks
late
imaginary
waits
eve
sequence
thumbnail
kept
played
saints
once
detail

The clay brought forth and lifted up from the wheel, her fingers curving and lapsing at the delicate lip. A cobra in the steaming reptile house, an ashen pewter cylinder of evident heft, undulates lazily beyond the smudged and mold-stained glass, then strikes in an instant, comb of teeth and wide-spread fangs laid out in a dark gash above the erect furl of its hood. The thudding strike startles the child, nose and pink fists pressed against the window. Her wails echo from the tiles of the dim, humid space as she runs away.





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