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| ***BIO*** More than 500 of Kristine Ong Muslim's poems and stories have appeared or are forthcoming in over 200 publications worldwide. Her poetry has appeared in Boxcar Poetry Review, Chimera Magazine, GlassFire Magazine, The Pedestal Magazine, Sawbuck, Tipton Poetry Journal, and Turnrow. |
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| Resurrection of a Porcelain Doll |
| by Kristine Ong Muslim |
| She wants to keep her soiled underwear,
her cobwebbed locks, her scuffed shoes. She tries to gouge out my eyes, try them on for fun. I swat at her tiny prying hands, the ones I have yet to dip in milk. Mornings I tell her all about the other resurrected dolls. She nods, falls asleep standing up on the mantel. All my guests swear that my porcelain doll has just winked at them. |
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| Mar. 2008 |
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