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    Like One Concussed 
     
    Like one concussed, he wakes. 
    Where's this? 
    A hole's bombed in the barracks. 
    He knows damnwell 
    there is no window there. 
    This quiet should not be. 
    He sweats. The tanks have 
    left without me, one lost survivor. 
                           
    His hot cheek 
    grazes lace and lofted down; 
    the blue wall's whispering. 
    Bare feet, deep mirror's face, 
    his, his, his. Oh I do 
    thee wed, this place. 
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Eleanor  Ross Taylor 
        
 
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