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A Childhood Jigsaw Puzzle | poem

By Valentina Cano On Sep 10, 2014

A Childhood Jigsaw Puzzle

I worked from the outside in.

Pieces of yellow sand

slashed to a sudden drop,

eggshell blue scorched by a paper sun.

Inside pieces next,

the one with the eyelash drawn

like an accent,

a lilting pause

as her hands weighed an apple.

A picture pulsing in the heat

of what came next.

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Valentina Cano is a student of classical singing who spends whatever free time she has either reading or writing. Her works have appeared in numerous publications and her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Web. Her debut novel, The Rose Master, was published in 2014.

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