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passing
Published in the 2020-2021 Honors Journal at the University of Colorado, Boulder
sprouting seed in
false spring:
chest flat
hair back under
a baseball cap
the waitress bounces
prey-like
to my table
she observes
is there anything else
I can do for you
ladies ?
white winter wind
cuts into
everything
green and my
retreating eyes
seed cannot
survive
she seems to
slither away
but no one
else sees
predator
no one else
freezes
I choke on
can I say I
do not caged
by attention
accusations like
being included
I bury my
self seen not
as a
lady ?
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