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nevertheless

Published posthumously March 26, 2021

your left arm

tucks under my

left upper arm

and rests on my rib cage

as your left hand reaches

to embrace my right upper arm.

if I had breasts,

they would be comfortable

resting on your left forearm.

I had a double mastectomy, a year ago.

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