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Washed Ashore
Laurie Kolp
Illumination seeps
through little eyelets
in the doll’s lace dress,
a rose-colored half-slip
clings to porcelain
like cheese cloth.
Above, a coral-burgundy
embroidered sunset,
like a streak of blood,
cracks less-perfected pattern-clips
sparks memory: a yellow pail
beneath baptismal gown in sewing room.