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Trails of the Snake
By: Mary Robles
Issue: 3 June 2024

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I know what you are, said the alien to the doe.

   A water drop quivering on her whisker.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I pretend I won’t age,

   I pretend I’m a raven, my head twisted backward.


© Copyright 2024 By: Mary Robles
About Mary Robles
Mary Robles is a current MFA candidate in poetry at Bowling Green State University and Poetry Editor at Mid-American Review. Recent work has appeared in Salt Hill Journal, Glass Mountain, and AGNI. maryroblespoetry.wordpress.com
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