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The Music

Why could it not have gone forever?
The Clancy Brothers at the White Horse,
Coltrane at the Blue Note,
a friend with a guitar
and a crystalline voice
singing “Silver Dagger”
while we lay under the trees.

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Ruth Holzer has published ten chapbooks, most recently, On the Way to Man in Moon Passage (dancing girl press) and Float (Kelsay Books). Her poems have appeared in Blue Unicorn, Faultline, Poet Lore, Plainsongs, and previously in Abandoned Mine. She is a multiple Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee.

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