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By clarewhomst BRONZE
Vernon Hills, Illinois
the silent bruising of words rotting as they slip off my tongue, hanging still in summer’s flyblown heat; i have the fragility you’d expect of a dead cicada’s...
Vernon Hills, Illinois
the silent bruising of words rotting as they slip off my tongue, hanging still in summer’s flyblown heat; i have the fragility you’d expect of a dead cicada’s...