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Volume XLV

2020 Poetry Backpage

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October 28, 2020

Liturgy of Next Door

October 28, 2020/ Roanoke Review

I remember when everything mystical
was connected. The dark repeating tuh-thump

of car tires on the highway at night,
the way they changed their rhythm nearing home,

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