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the sister kramazov
ISSUE #1
Author: wzxlo
the sister kramazov
Author: wzxlo
ISSUE #1
No Plagiarism!TzU3lfXh0a1faLKbDXUTposted on PＥNAＮＡ

All things that occur in fours

have a fifth, a conspirator

unbeknownst to the conspiracy,

and ignored by the narrator.

A bastard season of a sister

who borrows the defining features

of her brothers: the cynic,

the sensualist, the wretch

the mystic. Without her,

they cannot become each other.

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An onlooker, she remains unintroduced

at a distance—across a potato cart

at market, a few stools down the bar,

pausing by the picture windows

of their quarters, on her knees and forehead

in a mass of peasants at the monastery—

fiercely adoring all four

now that they're all in town, not for long.

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She wanders through them as she would a forest

and sees herself, a tree that grows there.

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There are nights all five

roam the streets alone,

inquisitors born from a father

who cannot answer for anything.

The brothers turn disparate

corners, unaware, cowards her:

the wheel around spokes,

the deck's forlorn joker,

apocryphal gospel,

quintessential wind.

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Any direction steers her closer

to one brother and farther from another,

and farther from one brother and

closer to another.

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Last updated: Nov 10, 2021
Total word count: 332
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