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Volume XLV

2020 Poetry Backpage

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May 31, 2020

Two Poems by Sara Henning

May 31, 2020/ Roanoke Review

The ripe ones
are sin-bruised,
eager for summer

to swindle each one
to tipsy pulp. But O,
how my husband

reaches for them,

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