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Flightless Things

by Christina Gleason

 

I envy girls
their prominent hips,
those handles,
slick and bony wings
flapping towards
other pretty birds.

I feel mine,
round and thick
under cupped hands,
these flightless things,
waiting for those
grounded.

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