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erase their consequences and wash me clean</p><p id="9968"><i>Vixen Lea is a mother to two small children and a number of animals, but first and foremost she is a human struggling to hang on to joy and presence. Poetry helps her remember who she was before juice boxes and laundry and playdates. Her writing can be found on her blog <a href="http://wakinguprazzledazzle.com">wakinguprazzledazzle.com</a>.</i></p><p id="5217">Read more by Vixen Lea:</p><div id="5ebb" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/bangs-23becef066ba"> <div> <div> <h2>Bangs</h2> <div><h3>a poem about being a teenage girl in 1989</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div>

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Salt

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I can’t remember who taught me surely not my pragmatic mother scoffing at all things luck, good and bad surely not my thrifty grandmother never one to waste something so precious nor my tidy aunt, always vacuuming

must have been something I saw on a screen picked up like a treasure a glittering of hope, to believe that tossing life’s missteps behind me would erase their consequences and wash me clean

Vixen Lea is a mother to two small children and a number of animals, but first and foremost she is a human struggling to hang on to joy and presence. Poetry helps her remember who she was before juice boxes and laundry and playdates. Her writing can be found on her blog wakinguprazzledazzle.com.

Read more by Vixen Lea:

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