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Lilah Hegnauer

Poetry

Summer 2012

Pie Bird

By Lilah Hegnauer

Was round again. Was the reins and bridle in hand, was saddled. Was the fasten seatbelt sign is lit, was fooled. Was curtsy and curdle, was anybody home, was I […]

Lilah Hegnauer

Lilah Hegnauer is the author of Dark Under Kiganda Stars (Ausable, 2005). She teaches in the English Department at James Madison University.  Her poem “Pie Bird” appears in the Summer […]