Ceremony

and in her body family. she knows how brother brings in full hands to the ceremony. how the men push to thicken milk to butter to cheese. press to bundled baby form, still soft in a wooden press. make shape. make shapely. push frame and push up a white sea.








maria filippone, a soon to be recent graduate of the new york unversity graduate creative writing program, spends her time creating. & destroying.


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