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Volume XLV

Sean Lause

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October 15, 2017 October 15, 2017/ Roanoke Review

"The air gasped like a smothered candle.
Treetops grasped at fleeing angels.
Something came accusing the rose,
and the afternoon sighed with butterflies."

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I knew a world once deeply in its wounds, Sean Lause, From the Secret Diary of Lucy Westenra, Poem, Poetry
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