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Second Place Winner: Meghan Smith
WarBrides
Rough hands stitching
lines on white linens;
porous starched cottons
bleached by April sun.
Young eyes watch as
threads of red ember
meander the veins
of doilies and crochet.
They hear the silence;
The open places in air
Where love travels to hands.
The slight glance at the wedding
china, guarded in a cabinet
of teak and ivory. The thin promise
she followed, a white
thread across the Atlantic.
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