At the moment her husband died, two miles away, Lucia Adalja, Lady of Elephantine, sister of Isis, wearing steel horns crowned upon her earthen brow, was stenciling ripe blue plums on the door of a cupboard filled with willow whips.
From the novel Perpendicular to the World by Carina Infante
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PoetryCan you disabuse glass of its transparency? Poems by Lin Tarczynski, dedicated to the memory of Melva Jo Lewis of Lompoc, California.
