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Winter 1991 • Vol. XIII No. 1 • Poetry |

Sky

The air is way lovelier
than it has a right to be.
Everything in a spin
of bloom, everything high
and handsome.

Exactly because it’s so unlikely,
there’s sadness smack in the middle
of all this possibility.
Ruin and flames.

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