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Autumn Leaves

volume 5 number 6

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Ode to Youth

by Brian Whatcott

How when my heart is live to want
the cherry flower of love's delights
can all I see be old and frail
the wind now frozen on the sail?
Night crossings only stay to haunt
the captain of a ship's last rites.

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