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Autumn 1988 • Vol. X No. 4 • Poetry |

Walking Past Midnight

By John Morgan

For Linda Schandelmeier

Dusk in the arctic whistled me
out of bed. I felt its feathers
brushing by. Moon pink in the west;

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