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Vulnerability

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Crash into me in tidal waves

Rush up hemlines of receding shore

Tempest fingers in remnants of history

Deposited sands of time; 

Expose metal detector mysteries:

Barbed wire and shrapnel

Wrapped around bones


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Lo grew up on the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia. They received their BSc from Mary Baldwin Women’s College in Staunton, Virginia and their MS from Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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    What a lovely and lyrical piece, Ivor. Your words would make a great song.

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