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A Love Lost
By Linda M. Crate


you took what was once full
of golden autumn pirouetting
lovely lilting lily memories
among our hearts, and broke

it into chunks of blackened
blooms dusted by winter’s
hand, ripping us out by our
roots; shaking the love free

now we stand apart when we
should stand together, you
holding onto your pride like
you should have held my

hand; instead you threw it
to the mercy of the wolves,
and decided you were going
break the union of our love.


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Linda Crate is a Pennsylvanian native born in Pittsburgh yet raised in the rural town of Conneautville. Her poetry has recently been featured in Magic Cat Press, Black-Listed Magazine, Bigger Stones, and Vintage Poetry. One of her short stories has been featured in Carnage Conservatory and she has an upcoming short story for publication in Dark Gothic Reconstructed Magazine in April 2012.