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tryst

Elle Cantwell

when we kissed

by the blazing

star


and meadow

sweet under

the sugar maple


i am fairly certain

nobody saw us

but the wood ducks

Elle Cantwell is a graduate of the MFA in Writing program at the University of San Francisco. Her poems have appeared in Ponder Review, December, Welter, HAD and  Barrelhouse, among other publications. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and is a winner of the Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Prize.

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