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Esther Lin
In circumstances of love,
I am abject; my
husband insists he
must be abject: I left.
Tourists and horseshoe
crabs converge on the beach.
The tourists clap
when the crabs mate.
I am abject. The sun
watches us watch the crabs.
Wan, disapproving spousal gaze!
By instinct—one I must
develop—some women
have known not to marry.
from the journal GETTYSBURG REVIEW
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