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you gone
I dream I’m chasing darkness
through our castle

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souvenir scarf
in ocean-green
I wrap Australia around my neck

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alone on a foreign shore
silver gulls dine with me

 

 

Yvonne Amey received her MFA from the University of Central Florida. Her poems have appeared in Tin House, Hobart, and elsewhere. Three of her poems have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes.