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in the backwater




LYN LIFSHIN



the baseball diamond
slips, a few
feet each day
into dark water

like a secret,
mumbled, then
taped over, locked
away. What¹s

murky creeps
thru sand bags. The
Illinois bubbles
up from bathroom

pipes, finds a
way in like
depression

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