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Larry D. Thomas
editors
Dale Wisely, Editor
Laura M. Kaminski, Assoc. Ed.
F. John Sharp, Fiction
F. J. Bergmann, Copy
ponders the abuse
she suffered as a child.
The nights were long,
bereft of a single star.
Mother Desert, far away,
awaited her arrival,
much more magical
than fairy tales of wolves,
witches, deceit, murder:
a place where darkness
sparkled with the light
of five thousand stars
and animals, with nothing
but will, breath, and clay,
pulsed their soft survival.
Irene
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