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Laura Eve Engel's work has appeared in Crazyhorse, Colorado Review, Columbia Poetry Review, and Tin House.
Two people I love are parting.
I left
my shoes in the desert. Maybe
I’m like
a wedding, I have a formal
need to make
these two ideas meet . . .
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