POEMS AND CHAPTERS OF A NOVELLa IN THE FORM OF VIGNETTES

When She Told Me

A novella as Vignettes

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When she told me
I happened to be out walking
It is a pastime I often return to
I was walking
And, I remember
The shocking feeling of both my ovaries shrinking up,
drawing themselves in
And shrinking
in pain
At the idea
that my children
Or my child
Had been tortured
That old…