What is Left of Her

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Penelopeya
Is     six     inches    tall

She has gotten
                                                         into the drainage system
 
          Looking for an outlet
Pahn
                                                   passes the old foundation
           weedy
           low and sunlit
where there is a pipe
                                    jutting from the cracked concrete and
he removes the cap
                                                     to let her out

She jumps down running                                                         
out of view
                                                      into the wild
                                                        garden of her own
                                                       volition

under the vines                                
         and bracken
 
                                                      of untended
                                                                  side yard
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