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Winter 1961 • Vol. XXIII No. 1 • Poetry |

Four Sheets to the Wind and a One-Way Ticket to France. 1933

By Conrad Kent Rivers

For Miss Ware

As a child,
I bought a red scarf and women told me how beautiful it looked.
Wandering through the sous-sols as France wandered through me.

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