‘Phone booth’, ‘Shops’, ‘Restaurant’, ‘Factory’, ‘Eggs’, and ‘Huts’

Maw Shein Win

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Photo: Annabelle Port

Phone booth

a Brownie camera slung around her sweaty neck

telephone wires crisscross

you didn’t hear that did you? you did now didn’t you?

child in a burlap cape leaps through the garden

three wild hogs & a mild cat

black & white self-portraits in bathroom mirrors & bakery windows

sun burns skin off foreheads

history has had its way

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