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Origin Myths

2 Origin Myths by by Megan Ross from her collection: Milk Fever (TSSF)

I should have guessed I would always take to mourning like religion. I swallowed the loss of my mother’s father inside her womb, death sampling my blood / lumped with absence. My futures bloomed in some prior-ticking heart & I forget this (when it’s my turn to swallow the world) I think it should show […]

By Megan Ross
In Poetry

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