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published in collection Cabinet of Wonders, 2002, Vernier Press, ISBN No. 1898825 06 8
Cloth Stars
A young woman peddling fast, she's muffled up in a rakish hat and scarf, balanced at her back a child riding the wheel. The mother intent on getting there fast, the kid's laughter heating her up.
Later in the museum a display keeps pulling me back to a pair of rescued stars in frayed cases, below instructions on how they should be washed, their yellow dye all leached out, six points still intact, next to a hand written note in a thick square carpenter's pencil. Creased and hurriedly signed, this request for a child's exemption. Imagine if permission was denied the limp cloth star unwrapped one night, tacked carefully on the child's breast.
The girl flies on filling my window with her shape framed for a moment then quickening into the wind as if the world exhaled.
Angela Dove
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