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I’ve hesitated beside the jewelweed, deep in the sevenbark,
told them I will not, not again—

What sovereign lies? What queen in her epistolary cage?
An ochre shotglass empties,
a lantern, unlit, heedlessly shines.

In vain I have opened mirrors & edges of mirrors.

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-Jennifer Givhan

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