After seven years
the curse broken into wind
new dawn on my face
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Three months was plenty to smell the mildew of old robes and the perfume of ambition that sticks to every hymnal. They told me it was formation but the concrete was already cracked. The professors fed on trauma politely, like ravens in clerical collars.
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They told me I was damned, but then they made me saved. Unholy. They made me holy. They said I was in pieces, damaged and afraid.
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There are days when I’m grateful Amazon doesn’t tell me specifically who has bought my book and who hasn’t. If they did, I would be heartbroken when I read the list and noticed all the important names in my life were not on my list of customers.
By Ellen Frances5 days ago in Writers
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