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What the Postcard Didn't Say









What the Postcard Didn't Say

How winter turns you.
How coal slides from the mine

and hovers over fields.
How the neck of a bird
jerks and pulls

the body in gasping tugs.
How your skated feet stutter
across ice, blades cutting
the lake in shaves and slivers.

by Sarah Gallagher