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Third Place Winner: Jenna Butler
nassau
dim clangor of
nassau night
attenuates her gaze
daughter strung
between your arms
(parody of family)
acid-house music
rocks the quay
stars fibrillating
in backwash oil-spackled sand
wife refuses
to meet your eyes
absconding
familiarity
your daughter wonders
if you are going to die
one day
(stupid bastard)
and it is only
ten years later
in a bar
perhaps
in an alley
or snowswept street
it occurs to you
the nascent grasp
of what she was really asking
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