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Winter 1984 • Vol. VI No. 1 • At Night: Two Poems |

Homecoming

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Leaving your wife in traction
alone on a hospital bed
you could have come on the highway
but took the streets instead
although the traffic was creeping
and the lights kept turning red.

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