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…and then we would argue about what to call our first child.
You would want to name him Julian; I would hold out for Gregory.
No one would know the back-story.And it wouldn’t matter. For the girl would slip out
before her brothers. Hairy-grey, green dragon scales on her tailbone.
A little wormy girl.Melusine, she would say, as if looking towards a mirror,
Melusine, pointing to her mouth.
We would know her. Pangaea. Pitt-bull’s daughter. Armadillidium vulgare.