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STEPHEN HALLA Shred of EvidenceHer pale skin fades from insistencelike a border town where the nationis hardly sung and language is hybrid.In a province of memory her daysare marginal, letters smelling of dustand the sweat of children, intermittent.Disputed territory, the border twitchinglike a vein, sometimes they're in the samecountry, sometimes she's a foreigner.Part of another popUlation, assumedby a twilight offensive - though old mapsstill draw them together and picturesof them holding hands, her stroking a catare thin evidence of those lost lands.WESTERLY, No.2, JUNE, 1989 101
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