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Molly Bendall is the author of five books of poetry, most recently, Watchful from Omnidawn Press. She teaches at the University of Southern California.
Poetry
I’m lucky, ghostly lucky,
when I start roaming
and recognize the sign on the door.
That’s when I whisper
to the nail, “you know
you little heathen
what you have done,”
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