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Spring 1986 • Vol. VIII No. 2 • Poetry |

Cretan Dawn: A Metaphor

By Conrad Hilberry

After sunset, men
in black pants, black
sweaters and scarves ran
from streets back

of the wharves, ran
the lost narrow
paths on the mountain,
finding the shadow

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