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Inheritance

By TRACI BRIMHALL | 21 OCT 2015

By Viviane Sassen — Iron Baby, 1999 Cast iron 12 x 28 x 17 cm Photograph by Stephen White © The Lowry

My dreams have sons. My dreams have daughters. My dreams have the stillborn blue in the whitening hands of my father.

Traci Brimhall is the author of Our Lady of the Ruins (W.W. Norton), selected by Carolyn Forché for the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press), winner of the 2009 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award.

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