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Mammalian – Xiaole Zhan – Schools Poetry Award - https://schoolspoetryaward.co.nz/

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Mammalian mamma, your back is flowered dark red and purple perfect circles, mamma, fleshy hills along the road of your spine, your blood suctioned to the surface of your skin, you tell me it helps with your pain, paints you the colour of tender bruises, blisters oozing with yellow liquid along the rim of each cup, too much moisture in the body, you say, I imagine the body as a dark cave, bones dripping stalactites, corroding canals and canals, there seems to be such a fine line between hurting and healing, mamma, remember sleeping in the summer, mamma, the mosquitoes plodding down on our wet s

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