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  Living Room

Amanda Laughtland
 

 

 
Reading and cross-stitching
on the couch, we check the clock,

refocus our eyes. A blue cuckoo
perches at noon or midnight—

or what time is it when time
has stopped? A pattern

of red-brown plaid begins
to fray beneath our legs

 


 

 

 

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