Poetry: girls in arpeggio

By Victoria-Anne Bulley I. Early Intervention the smiles of the girls on the children’s relaxer kits told no lies. they were too happy to realise they were poster-girls for the effacement of themselves.   not knowing this either we would sit there, still, watching our mothers mix dreams with a spatula, watching the mirror from under the roofs of our alkaline cream caps. we stared at the girl on the

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