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juliet’s wish

brushed flesh
yearning to ignite
like sparklers on
a summer night

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Jocosa Wade holds an MFA in Performance from the University of New Orleans. Her one-act Beating the Odds was first produced as part of the Washington, D.C. Theatre Festival and at Mill Mountain Theatre in Virginia. Her creative non-fiction has appeared in Sky Island Journal. Her poetry has been published by Lightwood.

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