The Sand Hill Review               http://www.sandhillreview.org 2011

Unquestioned

my attempt to jump out a second-story window

the drug used to allow my mother to drift

into permanent sleep

how hard the man shook Rachel to kill her

the piano painted orange

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“everything my mother does is fake”

“I love you, now, like a sister”

“being married is like being dead”

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what my father paid

for my college education

why one member of the family

started keeping his life a secret

innocent until proven guilty

there will be enough food;

there will be enough water;

there will be enough air

Muriel Karr