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Fairleigh Dickinson University

No. 2

Song

October 8, 2014

Darcey Steinke

  Bougainvillea petals blew around on the stone floor with a sound dry and melodic as you came into me. This was in that period of extreme weather. Heat waves followed by days of freezing rain. In that time of … Continued

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