DPF / Cherry

For women who aren’t like this, the so many I’ve known, from Poetryfoundation.org. I heard this on the treadmill this morning while listening to a Poetry podcast. The rest of the poem is here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/245154

from Their Pleas / by Kelly Cherry, b. Louisiana

a woman with a bulletproof  heart,
without a memory of life on earth.

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