The Change of Life

from her cell she no longer admired the purple martins in flight her sister loved them so the veins in her wrists swelled up and stretched under the copper bracelet to have come to this at fifty years old to be told that it's normal the stopped flow of blood a dried up belly this trembling voice Claire killed her husband on his birthday knocked him over on the rug gave him the show of her life he never got over it the crime is frayed in her memory washable traces of an erased existence

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