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End of Girlhood<br />
Annemarie Ni Churreain<br />
<strong>The</strong> first time<br />
a tree called me by name,<br />
I was thirteen and only spoke a weave of ordinary tongues.<br />
It started with a leaf and next,<br />
a mist came down from the hills, beating a lone skin drum,<br />
looking for me.<br />
Scarlet pimpernels dropped hints<br />
that could not be ignored:<br />
no red is innocent.<br />
Badger trails called me aside for a word.<br />
Come underground, they said,<br />
see what we are made of.<br />
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