Memento

This story appears in
27.1 - Winter/Spring 2015

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The table with an uneven leg / is wrapped in white ruffles, / a candle flickers / and Baby Jesus / opens his eyes – shutters beneath / his curly stucco hair. / After I threw him from his bed of hay …

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