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THE BOX

My mother says she won’t leave Michigan without it.

But when her father goes down to get it,

all he comes up with is a slim packet

of ruled paper, bound by a piece of twine.

Jane’s Diary—Private

it says on the cover,

Private twice underlined.

She didn’t always like her sister,

and she didn’t like her parents much either,

he warns my mother, who says

she doesn’t mind. She packs it

in her suitcase, tells me

we’ll look at it in due time.

About a year later, she sends me a copy.

The diary starts in January, 1960,

when Jane was thirteen, and runs

to October of 1961.

At this moment in my life

hate is so fierce

that I would give anything to kill my mother

she begins, already

on her way

to becoming a woman.