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Volume XLV

Tom Holmes

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August 15, 2017 August 15, 2017/ Roanoke Review

"the sea’s horizon ebbed instead of rose, 
and merchant ships returning home sailed off
their maps. Trade winds sank and water dried to land."

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Poetry, Poem, Sometimes the Night Arrives Without Design, Tom Holmes
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