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Cloning saved your hair, perfect in its not-brown-not-blond color and the way it curls at the edges...
Poetry
Science Fiction
Cloning saved
your hair, perfect
in its not-brown-not-blond color
and the way it curls
at the edges
and your skin
is just like I remember, rough
and smelling of wood dust,
sweet like sunlight, the color
of old paper
but now I see
nothing could translate
the lift of your laughter,
the constant wash of tears that makes
your eyes bright and clear, and
even science couldn’t fix
the pieces of you
too small
for color.
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Copyright 2009, Megan Arkenberg. All rights reserved. Megan Arkenberg is a writer and poet from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her work has appeared in The Lorelei Signal, A Fly in Amber, Scifaikuest and numerous other haiku and tanka publications. When not writing, she divides her time between music, painting, and editing a small fantasy e-zine, Mirror Dance.
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