Without
By Ellen Shelley
He’s moved to Varsity Lakes; loose as an untied shoe or a
shameless escape. Raised down south where bands play and
friends came to stay. Now it’s just him and his beat-up wreck
heading north with a blanket in the back and that wicker lamp
he snagged from the side of a road.
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