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Volume XLV

Jessica Long

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October 15, 2017 October 15, 2017/ Roanoke Review

"I walked barefoot on eggshells
and remembered not to say things.
You cut the teeth of our house keys
on the parts of my soul"

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Either Way, I had to wash my hands, Poetry, Poems, Jessica Long
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