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Posted on: Saturday, February 06, 2010 3:15 AM
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Subject: Forgiveness
| Barbara Ohrstrom ohrstromb@gmail.com Forgiveness I am in bed at a B & B on 17th Street in San Francisco, twisting and awake while my lover sleeps. It is very late – two or perhaps even three in the morning, the time when darkness shrouds our planet and our physical imperfections. I have woken from a nightmare with a familiar theme that, as always, horrifies me: lobsters, brown like sewage, rest motionless in the bottom of my porcelain bathtub. These varying nightmares have plagued me for years: I have dreamt I am washing my face and crabs tumble of the faucet instead of water; I am walking i |
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