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Poetry

A Silent Hallelujah

On the morning of my First Communion, I stood in a doorway fingering white tulle. I hear my mother’s voice: You never fuck me anymore. My father, fixing his tie, caught my eye like a foul ball as he left their bedroom. Months later while he was on a boy’s trip to Ireland, my mother …