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ECUMENICAL SERVICE

Ashley Mack-Jackson

Nine and ten: pinned in between cobwebbed
closet corner and the arms of ill-fitting church dresses
there is a first kiss struggling between cliché and sacred
ritual hands held out and palm up like surrender
like benediction: who is able to keep us from falling
present us faultless forever and ever: too quick girls.

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