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What the Photograph Won't Say

Marisol Vega

Ekphrastic · Memory

In it my grandmother is not yet tired.The dress is the blue she saved for leaving.Behind her, a door I have never walked throughto a street that is now a different street.

She is looking at someone just out of frame —my grandfather, or the country, or me,who would not exist for forty years.She is smiling as if she already knew.

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