Children’s Literature

Aliki Barnstone

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On this page, the stranger stands at the screen door,
holding a bunch of tulips wrapped in wet newspaper,
the ink a bruise spreading across his thumb and palm.
University of Virginia Virginia Quarterly Review
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University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903-3237
ISSN 2154-6932