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    THREE POEMS

    Jul 01, 2019 1 minute
    MINNIE BRUCE PRATT

    Clothed

    The treading, the treadle of work, the going backand forth between what-is and what-could-be. Metrying to keep up. Before dawn, butand rainy, so this poem’s coat is mottled and splotchedas first light shows through its thin cover. Pulling thatover you, as you say from your sleep, Go out and live.

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