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Kelly Cressio-Moeller

dark stairs

1.

dark stairs
small hands,
she was tired
of feeling

She’d been robbed,

 

Kelly Cressio-Moeller

Source: Atwood, Margaret, “The Blind Assassin”, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2000, p.435


Every night

2.

Every night
I crept down the stairs,

Furtive         furtive
the unseen,

I wandered
detached from
the risk

 

Kelly Cressio-Moeller

Source: Atwood, Margaret, “The Blind Assassin”, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2000, p.56


his departure

3.

his departure
Afterwards
was the relief—

 

Kelly Cressio-Moeller

Source: Atwood, Margaret, “The Blind Assassin”, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2000, p.219


She didn’t tell anybody

4.

She didn’t tell anybody

He
changed her

 

Kelly Cressio-Moeller

Source: Atwood, Margaret, “The Blind Assassin”, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2000, p. 195


hush-hush

5.

hush-hush
baby
so calm,

Such a thing called
for whispering.

How could he         ?

 

Kelly Cressio-Moeller

Source: Atwood, Margaret, “The Blind Assassin”, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2000, p.486


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